“Save Dubrovnik! Stop the Genocide!” — 🇭🇷 Croatian poster from the War of Independence (1991) denouncing the Yugoslav People's Army’s siege of Dubrovnik. 
The poster was sent to prominent individuals and institutions abroad in an effort to sway opinion against Serbia. This particular one was faxed to the American scientist and activist Linus Pauling, who had recently signed a letter published in the NY Times for ‘Peace in Croatia’.
The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) lay siege to the famous Croatian city of Dubrovnik for several months in 1991-2. Croatia was quick to capitalise on the images of JNA ships firing on an already smouldering Dubrovnik in the propaganda war with Serbia.
The JNA ended the siege in May 1992, pulling its forces back to neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Croatian army attacked from the west and fighting around Dubrovnik gradually died down in the following months.
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