right hereThe Yugoslav military and Serbian paramilitaries devastated the city in urban warfare and the destruction of Croatian property. Serb paramilitaries committed atrocities against Croats, killing over 200, and displacing others to add to those who fled the town within the Vukovar massacre. The different vital Serb-dominated entities in eastern Croatia announced that they too would be part of SAO Krajina. Zagreb had by this time discontinued submitting tax cash to Belgrade, and the Croatian Serb entities in turn halted paying taxes to Zagreb.] in others it aided Serbs in their confrontation with the new Croatian military and police forces. With the Plitvice Lakes incident of late March/early April 1991, the Croatian War of Independence broke out between the Croatian authorities and the rebel ethnic Serbs of the SAO Krajina (closely backed by the by-now Serb-managed Yugoslav People's Army).These three regions would combine into the self-proclaimed proto-state Republic of Serbian Krajina on 19 December 1991. Milošević refused to conform to the plan, as he claimed that the European Community had no proper to dissolve Yugoslavia and that the plan was not in the pursuits of Serbs as it would divide the Serb folks into four republics . Carrington responded by placing the difficulty to a vote in which all the opposite republics, including Montenegro under Momir Bulatović, initially agreed to the plan that would dissolve Yugoslavia.On 1 April 1991, the SAO Krajina declared that it would secede from Croatia. Immediately after Croatia's declaration of independence, Croatian Serbs also formed the SAO Western Slavonia and the SAO of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem.In public, pro-state media in Serbia claimed to Bosnians that Bosnia and Herzegovina could be included a brand new voluntary union within a brand new Yugoslavia based mostly on democratic authorities, but this was not taken seriously by Bosnia and Herzegovina's authorities. In the meantime, behind the scenes, negotiations began between Milošević and Tuđman to divide Bosnia and Herzegovina into Serb and Croat administered territories to attempt to avert war between Bosnian Croats and Serbs. Bosnian Serbs held a referendum in November 1991 leading to an overwhelming vote in favor of staying in a typical state with Serbia and Montenegro. In Vukovar, ethnic tensions between Croats and Serbs exploded into violence when the Yugoslav military entered the town.However, after intense strain from Serbia on Montenegro's President, Montenegro changed its place to oppose the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Lord Carrington's opinions had been rendered moot following newly reunited Germany's Christmas Eve 1991 recognition of Slovenia and Croatia. Except for secret negotiations between international ministers Genscher and Mock , the unilateral recognition got here as an unwelcome shock to most EU governments and the United States, with whom there was no prior session.