France, Aug. 5 -- To Croatia and Serbia, Operation Oluja means very different things. For Croatians, it is a moment of victory and celebration. For Serbians, it brings memories of war crimes and forced displacement.

In early August 1995, the Croatian army recatured the breakaway region of Krajina in just 84 hours. Most of the ethnic Serb population fled.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the operation, authorities in the Croatian capital Zagreb held the largest military parade in the country's history.

On Thursday, 3,500 soldiers, police and war veterans marched along Vukovar Avenue in the capital. They were marking the events of 4 to 7 August 1995, when Operation Oluja - Storm in Serbo-Croatian - crushed the self-declared Serbian Republ...