Civil unrest was such that terror, discrimination and "ethnic cleansing" (the systematic and systemic forced removal of ethnic groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group) were still present; thus local Serb forces managed to complete their cleansing of the UNPA areas, started in 1991, that left only 279 Croats there out of a pre-war population of 102,000.
Civil unrest was such that terror, discrimination and "ethnic cleansing" (the systematic and systemic forced removal of ethnic groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group) were still present; thus local Serb forces managed to complete their cleansing of the UNPA areas, started in 1991, that left only 279 Croats there out of a pre-war population of 102,000.