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The town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina was seized by Bosnian Serb forces in April 1992 during the first days of the Bosnian War.Bosnian Serb members of the local Territorial Defence (TO), supported by local Bosnian Serb police and some members of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), quickly overcame heavily overmatched local Bosnian Muslim police and reserve police elements ...
During the Bosnian War, Bosniak paramilitary forces supported an independent Bosnia and Herzegovina. Patriotic League (Bosnian: Patriotska liga), was established by the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) in June 1991 in preparations for the coming Bosnian War.
On 19 December 1990 Alija Izetbegović and the SDA party discussed forming an independent paramilitary separate from the Yugoslav People's Army. In March 1991 Sefer Halilović formed the Patriotic League (Patriotska Liga - PL) as an independent Bosnian army, with the same territorial organization as Territorial Defense Forces (TO). Later on the ...
Bosnian: Zeleni kadar) was a Bosniak nationalist paramilitary force during World War II. [1] It was founded in early December 1941 as a reaction to a massacre of Bosniak men and women carried out in Foča by the Serb Chetniks.
The TO was formally established on 15 April when all Patriotic League units joined the force. On 20 May 1992 the TORBIH, PL, and other militias and the Bosnian-Croat HVO and HOS were officially united as Armed Forces of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Oruzane Snage Republike Bosne i Hercegovine). On 23 May Colonel Efendić was replaced as ...
The ARBiH was the only military force on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina recognised as legal by other governments. Under the State Defense Reform Law the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina were unified into a single structure, the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (OSBiH), making entity armies defunct. [1] [2]
The Green Berets as a gear of choice [clarification needed] and the name was selected both as a reference to the United States Army Special Forces (the "Green Berets", although no actual relation existed) and as a common colour brand of the predominant ethnic group that composed the unit, namely Bosniaks. Bosnian Green Berets were mostly active ...
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