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The first use of Chetnik to describe members of army and police units appeared around the mid-18th century. [citation needed] Matija Ban used the word Chetnik in 1848 in terms of the need to establish armed units outside the Principality of Serbia to act in opposition to Ottoman rule following the rise of nationalism in the Balkans.
During the travel the civilians saw Chetniks showed the three-finger symbol and when they arrived, Serb police forces forced them to surrender them to hand over gold and jewellery and threatening to chop off the women's breasts. [32] [33] In 2008, The Bosnian newspaper Oslobođenje published a coverage of the arrest of Radovan Karadžić.
Although the group's members were occasionally referred to as Chetniks, [8] The name White Eagles comes from an anti-communist organisation that was formed during World War II. White Eagle refers to the national symbol of Serbia, the double headed white eagle under a crown.
"Liberty or Death" (Слобода или смрт / Sloboda ili smrt), motto of the Chetniks. [5] "For King and Fatherland" (За краља и отачаствo / Za kralja i otačastvo), motto of the Royal Serbian Army, found on regimental infantry flags. [6]
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Chetniks in World War I were members of auxiliary units used by the Royal Serbian Army for special operations against invading Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian and German forces. First organised into military formations during the Balkan Wars (1912–1913), they became an integral part of the Royal Serbian Army in August 1914 with the formation of ...
The Blue Guard (Slovene: Plava garda), also known as the Slovene Chetniks (Slovene: Slovenski četniki, Serbo-Croatian: Slovenački četnici), was a Slovenian anti-communist militia, initially under the leadership of Major Karl Novak and later Ivan Prezelj. Their official name was the Royal Yugoslav Army in Slovenia.
The Dinara Division (Serbian: Динарска дивизија / Dinarska divizija) was an irregular Chetnik formation that existed during the World War II Axis occupation of Yugoslavia that largely operated as auxiliaries of the occupying forces and fought the Yugoslav Partisans.