Nearly 1,700 refugees simply vanished. The Croatian rampage through the region left a trail of devastation. Croatian special police units, operating under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, systematically looted abandoned Serbian villages. A confidential European Union report stated that 73 percent of Serbian homes were destroyed. The corpses, some fresh, some decomposed, are mainly of old men .
Serb lands continue to be torched and looted.
In a village near Knin, eleven bodies were found, some of them were massacred in such a way that it was not easy to see whether the body was male or female. Another UN team, meanwhile is investigating the killing of a man and a woman in the same area after villagers described how the man's ears and nose had been mutitated. During a triumphalist train journey through Croatia and Krajina, Tudjman spoke at each railway station. U.S. representatives blocked Russian attempts to pass a UN Security Council resolution condemning the invasion. According to Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic, American officials gave advice on the conduct of the operation, and European and military experts and humanitarian aid workers reported shipments of U.S weapons to Croatia over the two months preceding the invasion.