Arkan Tigers SDG Serbian Volunteer Guard Soldiers Veterans Patches Bosnia War
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Arkan Tigers SDG Serbian Volunteer Guard Soldiers Veterans Patches Bosnia WarDimesnions of tiger patch: 9cm x 10.5cmDimensions of SDG patch: 9cm x 12cm
These patches are reissue and made for Arkan Tigers Veterans after Bosnia War.
Read story about Arkan Tigers Veterans:The links of Željko Ražnatović Arkan, commander of the SerbVolunteer Guard, with state security services date back to the time of StaneDolanc, Federal Secretary for Internal Affairs in the 1980s, who introd...uced thepractice of recruitment of persons convicted for serious crimes for the needsof the Service. In late 1980s, Arkan was given a task by the State SecurityService to put under control a group of supporters of the Red Star (Crvenazvezda) football club. In this way, he formed a supporters’ group of “Delije”which is still active in Serbia. He thus deserved a seat in the management ofthe Red Star football club, whose other member was Radmilo Bogdanović, at thattime Minister of the Interior of Serbia. The Serb Volunteer Guard or “Arkan’s Tigers” was formed fromthe core of the Red Star supporters from Belgrade, at the Pokajnica Monasteryon October 11 1990. It was set up by Željko Ražnatović Arkan and others, including Nebojša Ðorđević, Saša Pavlović, Nenad Marković and Dragan Petrović. The SDG appeared for the first time in Slavonia in June1991, specifically in Tenja near Osijek, Croatia. In Erdut, a village inCroatia on the border with Serbia, they set up their headquarters. SDGco-operated closely with Andrija Biorčević, who was the commander of the JNANovi Sad Corps. After the fall of Vukovar in November 1991, the SDG officiallybecame part of the Territorial Defence of the newly established SerbianAutonomous Region (SAO) of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and West Syrmia, whileŽeljko Ražnatović was designated an advisor for national security of GoranHadžić, President of the SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and West Srem. The SDGmembership never exceeded 300 persons. After the warring in the Slavonia battlefield, the SDGtransferred to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where it operated on the territories ofZvornik, Bijeljina and Brčko in the autumn of 1992. After the war ended in 1995, the Serb Volunteer Guard wasdisbanded. Ražnatović became more politically active since he founded the Partyof Serbian Unity as early as in 1993. Also, he started numerous businesses inSerbia and bought a football club, “Obilić”.After the disbanding of the SDG, part of the volunteers wentover to the JSO Special Operations Unit (Red Berets).Željko Ražnatović was killed at the Intercontinental Hotelin Belgrade on January 15 2000. Direct executors are known, but neither the backgroundof the murder nor who organised it and why have ever been clarified.
These patches are reissue and made for Arkan Tigers Veterans after Bosnia War.
Read story about Arkan Tigers Veterans:The links of Željko Ražnatović Arkan, commander of the SerbVolunteer Guard, with state security services date back to the time of StaneDolanc, Federal Secretary for Internal Affairs in the 1980s, who introd...uced thepractice of recruitment of persons convicted for serious crimes for the needsof the Service. In late 1980s, Arkan was given a task by the State SecurityService to put under control a group of supporters of the Red Star (Crvenazvezda) football club. In this way, he formed a supporters’ group of “Delije”which is still active in Serbia. He thus deserved a seat in the management ofthe Red Star football club, whose other member was Radmilo Bogdanović, at thattime Minister of the Interior of Serbia. The Serb Volunteer Guard or “Arkan’s Tigers” was formed fromthe core of the Red Star supporters from Belgrade, at the Pokajnica Monasteryon October 11 1990. It was set up by Željko Ražnatović Arkan and others, including Nebojša Ðorđević, Saša Pavlović, Nenad Marković and Dragan Petrović. The SDG appeared for the first time in Slavonia in June1991, specifically in Tenja near Osijek, Croatia. In Erdut, a village inCroatia on the border with Serbia, they set up their headquarters. SDGco-operated closely with Andrija Biorčević, who was the commander of the JNANovi Sad Corps. After the fall of Vukovar in November 1991, the SDG officiallybecame part of the Territorial Defence of the newly established SerbianAutonomous Region (SAO) of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and West Syrmia, whileŽeljko Ražnatović was designated an advisor for national security of GoranHadžić, President of the SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and West Srem. The SDGmembership never exceeded 300 persons. After the warring in the Slavonia battlefield, the SDGtransferred to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where it operated on the territories ofZvornik, Bijeljina and Brčko in the autumn of 1992. After the war ended in 1995, the Serb Volunteer Guard wasdisbanded. Ražnatović became more politically active since he founded the Partyof Serbian Unity as early as in 1993. Also, he started numerous businesses inSerbia and bought a football club, “Obilić”.After the disbanding of the SDG, part of the volunteers wentover to the JSO Special Operations Unit (Red Berets).Željko Ražnatović was killed at the Intercontinental Hotelin Belgrade on January 15 2000. Direct executors are known, but neither the backgroundof the murder nor who organised it and why have ever been clarified.
