Serb paramilitary
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Before World War II

  • Komitadji
    Komitadji
    The term Komiti meaning "a rebel, member of a secret revolutionary society", refers to members of rebel bands operating in the Balkans during the final period of the Ottoman Empire, fighting against Turkish authorities in Macedonia...

  • Chetniks
    Chetniks
    Chetniks, or the Chetnik movement , were Serbian nationalist and royalist paramilitary organizations from the first half of the 20th century. The Chetniks were formed as a Serbian resistance against the Ottoman Empire in 1904, and participated in the Balkan Wars, World War I, and World War II...

  • Narodna Odbrana
    Narodna Odbrana
    Narodna Odbrana was a Serbian nationalist group that was created around 1908 as a reaction to the Austria-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the time, it was concerned with the protection of ethnic Serbs in Austria-Hungary...

    , reported to have committed war crimes in Macedonia
    Macedonia (region)
    Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. Its boundaries have changed considerably over time, but nowadays the region is considered to include parts of five Balkan countries: Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, as...

    .

Yugoslav war

  • Serbian Guard
  • White Eagles
    White Eagles (paramilitary)
    The White Eagles , also known as the Avengers , were a Serbian paramilitary group associated with the Serbian National Renewal and the Serbian Radical Party...

    , also known as Šešeljevci, reported for ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Vojvodina
    Vojvodina
    Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

     and Kosovo
    Kosovo
    Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

    .
  • Serb Volunteer Guard
    Serb Volunteer Guard
    The Serb Volunteer Guard also known as Arkan's Tigers was a Serbian volunteer paramilitary unit, founded and led by Željko Ražnatović, that fought in Croatia ; Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the Kosovo War ....

    , also known as Arkan's Tigers, reported for ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
  • Scorpions
    Scorpions (paramilitary)
    The Scorpions were a Serbian paramilitary group which actively sought out the extermination of other ethnicities in the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. The unit was formed in 1991 in what was then the breakaway Republic of Serbian Krajina...

  • Yellow Wasps
    Yellow Wasps
    The Yellow Wasps were a Serbian paramilitary group which was active in the Bosnian War. Its leader was Vojin Vučković Žućo. The group was active in the Zvornik region...

  • Vukovi s Vučjaka
    Vukovi s Vucjaka
    Vukovi s Vučjaka was a Serb paramilitary active in the Croatian War of Independence and the Bosnian War. It is established in Prnjavor.They were active in fighting in Okučani, Jasenovac and Novska. In August, 1991 the unit took over the transmitter on Kozara, and replaced RTV Sarajevo with Serb...


See also

  • Serbian war crimes
    Serbian war crimes
    Serbian war crimes may refer to:* Serbian war crimes in the Balkan Wars* Serbian war crimes in World War II* Serbian war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars...

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