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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.
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.
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"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.
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 ...
Other Serbian dynasties also adopted the symbol as a symbolic continuation, like the Mrnjavčević and Lazarević. Prince Lazar (r. 1371–89), when renovating the Hilandar monastery of Mount Athos, engraved the double-headed eagle at the northern wall. [5] The Codex Monacensis Slavicus 4 (fl. 1371–89) has richly attested artwork of the ...
A derivative of the symbol emerged during the election period, where anti-Prabowo elements created a new symbol known as the "Four-finger salute." This gesture combined elements from the three-finger salute, associated with Ganjar's campaign, and adding the index finger symbol, linked to Anies Baswedan's campaign. The fusion of these two ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...