Zelene Beretke
Zelene Beretke (Green Berets) was a paramilitary organization of the nationalist Bosniak party Stranka Demokratske Akcije , which was founded on June 10, 1991 in Sarajevo on the initiative of Alija Izetbegović . The Zelene Beretke troops were mostly active in the north and central areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina , where they are said to have committed numerous war crimes. In the second half of 1992 they were integrated into the newly founded Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine .
Kidnapping of Milorad Ekmečić
In 1992, Milorad Ekmečić , a Serbian historian , nationalist and former professor of the Philosophical Faculty in Sarajevo , was kidnapped, detained and tortured by the Zelene Beretke, but Ekmečić managed to escape, where he had to undergo an operation in Belgrade after the severe physical abuse that had taken place.
Attack on the column of the Yugoslav People's Army in Tuzla
On May 15, 1992, a convoy of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) leaving a barracks in Tuzla was attacked by several thousand members of the Zelene Beretke. The sharpshooters of the irregulars are doing first the drivers of the cars have killed to the column to force a halt. Those who then escaped from the trucks were murdered one after the other. During the attack there were numerous dead and wounded on the part of the JNA. According to later information, there were around 80 fatalities and around 130 injured on the part of JNA members, most of them unarmed conscripts. More JNA members found themselves in captivity , there some were tortured and killed. Most of the victims were inexperienced recruits between the ages of 16 and 25 doing their military service in the city, as well as some reservists . This incident, classified as a war crime, was recorded as an attack on the column of the Yugoslav People's Army in Tuzla .
Web links
- Bosnia: Enemies of God Der Spiegel , August 17, 1992
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Vetter: Glossary, abbreviations and pronunciation in: Dunja Melcic (Ed.): Der Yugoslavien-Krieg. Prehistory, course and consequences manual . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , 1999, ISBN 978-3-663-09609-2 , pp. 569, 570
- ^ Eva Reder: The War in Ex-Yugoslavia 1991-1995 in the Ö1 journals / 6. The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina Austrian Media Library , accessed on December 28, 2017