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This paramilitary would see battle in both the Croatian and Bosnian theater of war. Muslim Defence Forces (Bosnian: Muslimanske obrambene snage), also known as simply "muslim forces" were founded early 1992 in the areas of Zenica, Kakanj, Vareš, Žepča, Busovača, Travnik, Novi Travnik, Vitez, Visoko, Bugojno and Gornji Vakuf/Uskoplje from ...
Milan Lukić, leader of a local group of paramilitaries referred to variously as the White Eagles, the Avengers or the Wolves, established his headquarters at the Vilina Vlas Hotel, one of various locations where local Bosniaks were detained. The group, with ties to the local police and Serb military units, played a prominent role in the ethnic ...
On 19 December 1990 Alija Izetbegović and the SDA party discussed forming an independent paramilitary separate from the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). 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 ...
2.4.2 Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Special Operations Group: Elite Paramilitary Special Forces Police tactical unit: ... 112 full time; 3,634 adult members and 3,232 ...
The 200 villagers who were being escorted to Mehurici by the 306th Brigade military police were intercepted by a group of mujahideens and a dozen Bosnian Army forces in Poljanice. They took prisoner at least 24 military-aged Croats and a 19 years old Croat girl who was wearing a Red Cross armband. The prisoners were taken to Bikoši, between ...
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 ...
Green Cadres (paramilitary) (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 organisation was formed in poor conditions and was not supported at first by the ...
The Garda Panteri (Panthers Guard) (Serbian: Гарда Пантери), also known as Specijalna Brigada Garda Panteri (Panthers Guard Special Brigade)(Serbian: Специјална бригада Гарда Пантери), was an elite unit in the Army of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War.