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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 ...
Paramilitary Law Enforcement related Air support services 335 Hong Kong Police Force: Police force: For subdivisions, see Structure of the Hong Kong Police Force. Disciplined officers: 33,210 (2023) [10] Auxiliary officers: 4,501 (2021), [11] Unsworn: 4,735 (2023) [10] Special Duties Unit: 23 July 1974 Elite Paramilitary Special Forces Police ...
Patriot Mutual Assistance Group Rindge: New York: New York Lightfoot Militia [31] [32] [33] Delaware, County: Liberty State Militia Chenango County: New York Militia TM [D] Albany County: Mohawk Valley Region: New York Mutual Assistance Group Orange County: Suffolk County: North Carolina: Stokes County Militia King: Ohio: The Frontiersmen ...
Wolves of Vučjak (Vukovi s Vučjaka), Bosnian Serb organization, active in Bosnia and Croatia between 1991 and 1993. Yellow Wasps (Žute ose), Bosnian Serb organization, active in Bosnian Podrinje between April and October 1992. Scorpions (Škorpioni), Serb organization, active in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo.
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 ...
While members of some such groups believe such militias are approved or endorsed by law, particularly by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, they are in no way public authorities or organized military or National Guard units of the country or their state. They are private citizens, in voluntary association, and self-funded.
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 ...
The Bijeljina massacre involved the killing of civilians by Serb paramilitary extermination groups in Bijeljina on 1–2 April 1992 in the run-up to the Bosnian War. The majority of those killed were Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims). Members of other ethnicities were also killed, such as Serbs deemed disloyal by the local authorities.