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These units are commonly known as Muslim militias, [2] Bosnian: muslimanske milicije. [3] Hoare describes them as "Muslim quisling armed formations". [ 4 ] Most militias supported the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state of Nazi Germany governed by the Ustaše .
The 7th Muslim Brigade (Bosnian: 7. muslimanska brigada / 7. muslimanska viteška oslobidilačka brigada) was an elite all-volunteer brigade of the 3rd Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It served as the ARBiH's primary assault brigade in Central Bosnia, and was headquartered in Zenica.
Meanwhile, the Bosnian Muslims voted for independence. Bosnian Serbs declared an autonomous province, independent of Bosnia, and Bosnian Croats took similar steps. The war broke out in April 1992. [6] Muslim foreign fighters came to support the Bosnian Muslims and an independent Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Although, former U.S. Balkans peace negotiator Richard Holbrooke said in an interview that he believed the Bosnian Muslims wouldn't have survived without foreign help, as at the time a U.N. arms embargo uniquely diminished the Bosnian government's fighting capabilities - he called the arrival of the mujahideen "a pact with the devil" from which ...
The Intra-Bosnian Muslim War (Serbo-Croatian: Unutarmuslimanski rat) was a civil war fought between the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina loyal to central government of Alija Izetbegović in Sarajevo and the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia loyal to Fikret Abdić in Velika Kladuša from 1993 to 1995. The war ended in victory ...
King Zog of Albania: Europe's Self-Made Muslim Monarch, 2003 (ISBN 0-7509-3077-2) Donia R., Islam under Double Eagle: The Muslims of Bosnia and Hercegovina, 1878-1914; F. Schmid, Bosnien und Herzegowina unter der Verwaltung Österreich-Ungarns (Leipzig, 1914) B. E. Schmitt, The Annexation of Bosnia, 1908–1909 (Cambridge, 1937)
On 4 April, Alija Izetbegović ordered general mobilization: and on 8 April he transformed the Sarajevo TO command into GHQ of the Teritorijalna Odbrana Republike Bosne i Hercegovine (Territorial Defence Force of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina) (TORBIH), appointing the Bosnian-Muslim Colonel Hasan Efendić as commander of the army ...
The fight was fought in the suburbs near the majority of the Bosnian population (Donji Polje, Aladža). In the next few days, Serbian fighters took over the suburbs of Foča. Here the Bosnian Muslims fought skillfully and desperately. Most of the city in the afternoon seems dead (many locals have already fled). [7]