Losses
According to Croatian sources, the only published military data so far, the Croatians had 114 fatalities and the Serbs suffered 490 dead.
Serbian sources mostly agree, citing a figure of 491. 326 were militiamen and 160 were civilians. The Smoković village, Kassić and Islam Grčki villages were burnt down by Croatian forces, and forced many of the civilians to flee.
The Croatian officials initially publicly claimed that the number of Croatian fatalities in the Operation Maslenica was 50. It was soon revealed that the correct numbers, found and verified by independent and unbiased sources, were much higher, which sparked a controversy in Croatia.
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