Professor Rebic said at the book's promotion in Zagreb that one of the reasons he agreed to publish it was "the bitter pill" Croatia was given with the Hague tribunal's non-final verdicts against Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac, and to publish the truth from documents which he said had apparently not been sufficiently used in their trial.
Editor Zvonimir Despot said those were Serbian documents confirming that the flight of Croatian Serbs after the 1995 military Operation Storm had been planned and executed according to plan, despite arguments that it had been a case of ethnic cleansing.
He said the book was "coming" at the right time because of the position of Croatian generals in The Hague.
Despot said the book's title showed that the author had not written only about Croatian refugees but all those who had to leave their homes.
Rebic confirmed that, mentioning several meetings with fleeing Serbs in August 1995 when, at the order of then President Franjo Tudjman, he had brought them humanitarian aid.