We were unpleasantly surprised when in the early morning of August 4th  Franjo Tudjman announced the start. My dream was to convince other environmental and peace activist in Europe that Croatia, more precise West Slavonia, as the place to organise Ecotopia ’96. I know a very selfish reaction, less than 40 km away the war is going on again and I am afraid that I can´t have my nice international peaceful ecological youth camp in the middle of it... 

Od 1991. do 1998. iz Hrvatske je za Srbiju otišlo 33 tisuće ljudi, a s "Olujom" još 200 tisuća. Trenutno ih je 49 tisuća s izbjegličkim statusom, a neki su dobili državljanstvo Srbije.

Zatočenici Zoran Malenić, Živko Mutić i Ranko Grbić za H-alter svjedoče da su u Lori prisilno boravili sve do kolovoza 1997. godine. Pored dugotrajnih mučenja i prisilnog rada, policajci su ih, kažu, nakon 'Oluje' prisiljavali sudjelovati u pljačkaškim pohodima po okolici Knina.