Beli Orlovi

This article is about the Serbian paramilitary organization. For the football team known as Beli Orlovi , see Serbian National Football Team .

Badge of the White Eagle

The White Eagle ( Serbian Бели Орлови Beli Orlovi ), also known as Osvetnici ("The Avengers"), was a Serb paramilitary unit in the wake of the Serbian renewal movement and the neo-fascist Serbian Radical Party . The unit was active in the Yugoslav Wars (between 1991 and 1995). During the Bosnian War , the unit operated in the districts of Sarajevo , Gacko , Doboj , Zvornik , Bileća , Višegrad , Modriča , Bosanska Krupa , Banja Luka and Prijedor .

The symbol and namesake of the white eagle was the heraldic animal of Serbia , the white crowned double-headed eagle . Most of the members of these units referred to themselves as Chetniks .

history

The paramilitary unit was founded in 1991–1992 by Dragoslav Bokan and Mirko Jović . Vojislav Šešelj testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) that the organization was founded by Jović, but that he soon lost control. According to ICTY many were from the white eagles war crimes during the Croatia war and the Bosnian war committed the massacre in Višegrad , crimes in Foca , Gacko and other crimes. Several members of the White Eagles were charged before the ICTY and some were convicted, including Milan Lukić and Mitar Vasiljević .

Symbols

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  Badge labeled BELI ORLOVI - 1 DESANTNI BATALJON (White Eagles - 1st  Paratrooper Battalion)

Web links

• "White Eagles - Serbian Radical Party (SRS)" Federation of American Scientists, 1998
• (November 22, 1993) Vreme News Digest Agency No 113

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Soucy: Fascism (politics) - Serbia . Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
2. ↑ Profile: Vojislav Seselj in BBC News November 27, 2006
3. ↑ Allen, Beverly (1996) Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp. 154-155, ISBN 0-8166-2818-1
4. ↑ Dr. Nigel Thomas, Krunoslav Mikulan: The Yugoslav Wars (2): Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia (1992-2001) . Osprey Publishing Ltd., Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-1-84176-964-6 , pp. 14 .
5. ↑ United Nations Commission on Breaches of Geneva Law in Former Yugoslavia ( Memento of the original of August 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Misha Glenny (1992) The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War Penguin, London, p. 39, ISBN 0-14-017288-2
7. ^ Tanner, Marcus (1997) Croatia: a nation forged in war Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, p. 245, ISBN 0-300-07668-1
8. ↑ THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA Case No. IT-02-54-T, Prosecution's Second Pre-Trial Brief (Croatia and Bosnia Indictments) 31 May 2002, p. 90
9. ↑ Testimony of Vojislav Šešelj, Transcript of August 24, 2005, p. 43128, lines 6-8
10. ↑ Blaskovich, Jerry (November 1, 2002) The Ghastly Slaughter of Vocin Revisited: Lest We Forget in The New Generation Hrvatski Vjesnik - English supplement
11. ↑ Testimony of Djuro Matovina, Transcript of 7 October 2002, p. 11049, lines 12-16
12. ↑ Testimony of Witness 52, Transcript of March 27, 2000
13. ↑ Testimony of Witness 192, Transcript of May 4, 2000
14. ↑ AU Washington College of Law: War Crimes Research Office - ICTY Status Reports February 21, 2006 ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ Croatian Evening News September 9, 2001 ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.