The third front was
Western Slavonia (
a map of whole Slavonia, eastern and western). The war was less intensive in this area, no many massacres, unlike in Eastern Slavonia. The units of the Serb-Yugoslav Army crossed the river Sava in summer-spring 1991. They occupied many villages (the villages with Serb majority not yielding any resistance, but welcoming them as "liberators"), but stopped at gates of virtually all urban centers of the areas (Pakrac, Lipik, Slatina, Nova Gradiška, etc.), being unable to occupy them due to the fierce resistance of the Croatian forces. The occupied parts of the Western Slavonia were liberated in May 1995, by the
Operation Flash, conducted by Croatian army and police units. One smaller part of the occupied territory was regained already in the end 1991/beginning of 1992, through the operation
Orkan 91. The town of Pakrac and Lipik were especially savagely bombed, with many civilians killed. At
the village called Bučje a small concentration camp was set-up where Croatian prisoners and abducted civilians were trotured and some killed (about 50?).
Serb-Yugoslav soldiers shooting at Pakrac, including its hospital and church, and bragging about it before cameras (subtitles in Serbian only, unfortunately, video was filmed by the Serbs). In the last sequence one soldier boasts that about 3000 grenades were launched and that every house must have gotten at least one (he shows his pride in this).