The purpose of this talk is to give a brief account of the current situation in Croatia—a small country located between the Adriatic sea and the Danube, along the south-eastern spur of the Alps. I would like to begin with some general remarks about the Croatian cultural heritage and the damage that has been inflicted on it by nine months of exceptionally brutal warfare. I will give some rather dry statistics, but it is important to keep in mind that each of these statistics represent an act of appalling vandalism of a kind that has not been seen in Europe for a generation. I will then focus on the specific cases of Dubrovnik and Zadar. Since both of these cities are under the jurisdiction of my Institute I can report about them in some detail from personal experience. Finally I have some concrete proposals for what could be done to mitigate the effects of the damage already caused to cultural monuments by the war in Croatia. Croatia desperately needs immediate international help to preserve its cultural heritage. I will report on some initiatives already under way.