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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 which was active during the Bosnian War.
Patriotic League (Bosnian: Patriotska liga), was established by the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) in June 1991 in preparations for the coming Bosnian War. Together with Territorial Defence Force of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was transformed into the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The 1977 Hanafi Siege was a terrorist attack, hostage-taking, and standoff in Washington, D.C., lasting from March 9 to March 11, 1977.Three buildings (the District Building, B'nai B'rith headquarters, and Islamic Center of Washington) were seized by twelve Hanafi Movement gunmen, who took 149 hostages. [1]
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 ...
In 1992, the Scorpions came under the command of the Serbian Army of Krajina. [3] The Scorpions became part of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs at some point in 1995. [3] They participated in the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995, [1] and filmed the execution of six Bosnian Muslims near the village of Trnovo, named The Scorpions, A Home ...
If a narrow definition of genocide is used, as favoured by the international courts, then during the Srebrenica massacre, 8000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered and the remainder of the population (between 25 000 and 30 000 Bosniak women, children and elderly people) was forced to leave the area. If a wider definition is used, then the ...
Rasim Delić (4 February 1949 – 16 April 2010) was the chief of staff of the Bosnian Army.He was a career officer in the Yugoslav Army but left it during the breakup of Yugoslavia and was convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for failing to prevent and punish crimes committed by the El Mujahid unit under his command.
In 1991, 73% of the population in Srebrenica were Bosnian Muslims and 25% Bosnian Serbs. [41] Tension between Muslims and Serbs intensified in the early 1990s, as the local Serb population were provided with weapons and military equipment distributed by Serb paramilitary groups, the Yugoslav People's Army ( Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija , JNA ...