Structure of the People's Defense of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia:[1][2] From October 12th 1993 to 5 August 1995,[5] the NOZB fought against the 5th Corps and Croatian forces with support from Republika Srpska and the Republic of Serbian Krajina.

The Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo established that the communities that were under siege – Bihać, Bosanska Krupa, Cazin and Velika Kladuša – 4,856 people were killed or went missing from 1991 to 1995.

[6] The APZB was wiped out completely during the Operation Storm, decisive Croatian offensive in Republic of Croatia, and supported by ARBIH 5th corps in area of Bihać on 4th to 7th of August 1995.

[7] On 2 June 1994, the 5th Corps, under the command of Atif Dudaković,[8] overran and seized the territory of Western Bosnia and Fikret Abdić fled to Zagreb for safety.

In 2013, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued a decision that equated the rights of former soldiers of the NOZB with those of the members of the ARBiH and the HVO.