Slovenian Independence War

Ten-Day War

Part of the Yugoslav Wars

Yugoslav map of operations during the Ten-Day War

Date

27 June – 7 July 1991

Location

Slovenia

Result

Decisive Slovenian victory

Brioni Accords

Belligerents

Yugoslavia

Yugoslav People's Army

Slovenia

Commanders and leaders

Aleksandar Vasiljević

Strength

22,300 personnel

35,200 Slovenian Territorial Defence

10,000 police

Casualties and losses

44 killed

146 wounded

4,693 prisoners

19 killed

182 wounded

Decisive Slovenian victory

Yugoslavia

Slovenia

The Ten-Day War (Slovene: desetdnevna vojna) or the Slovenian Independence War (slovenska osamosvojitvena vojna), also the Weekend War (vikend-vojna) was a brief war of independence that followed the Slovenian declaration of independence on 25 June 1991. It was fought between the Slovenian Territorial Defence (Slovene: Teritorialna obramba Republike Slovenije) and the Yugoslav People's Army (YPA). It lasted from 27 June 1991 until 7 July 1991, when the Brioni Accords were signed. It marked the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars.

Following the death of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito in 1980, underlying political, ethnic, religious, and economic tensions within Yugoslavia surfaced. In 1989 Slobodan Milošević, Chairman of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia since 1986, became president of Serbia, the largest and most populous of the six Yugoslav republics. As Milošević moved to consolidate power by centralizing the state, the governments of the other republics sought to loosen the central grip on power by devolving as much constitutional power as possible to each of the republics and autonomous provinces. A series of disagreements among delegates persisted until four of the six republics each made the decision to secede from Yugoslavia. Supported by Germany and the Vatican, Slovenia was among those republics aiming for independence.

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