Through this, the Bosnian Serb army also received extensive military equipment and full funding from the FRY, as the Bosnian Serb faction alone could not pay for the costs.

** War between ethnic-Albanian separatists and Yugoslav military and Serb paramilitary forces in Kosovo begin in 1996 and escalates in 1998 with increasing reports of atrocities taking place.

** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

** The final fighting in Croatian and Bosnian wars ends in 1995 with the success of Croatian military offensives against Serb forces and the mass exodus of Serbs from Croatia in 1995 ; Serb losses to Croat and Bosniak forces ; and finally the signing of the Dayton Agreement which internally partitioned Bosnia and Herzegovina into a Republika Srpska and a Bosniak-Croat federation.

* March 12 – Ratko Mladic, former Bosnian Serb military leader

Bildt opposed any military intervention and criticized the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1993 for calling NATO to intervene against the Bosnian Serb forces, which led to the Sunday Times calling Bildt and other EU leaders " robotic political pygmies " and their acceptance of the ongoing genocide " shameful ".

In 1330, Basarab took part in the military campaign Tzar Michael Sishman launched against Serbia, which ended on July 18 with the Serb victory at Velbazhd.

With his forces vastly outnumbered and outgunned, Serb Vojvoda Marshal Radomir Putnik ordered a full retreat of the Serbian military south and west through Montenegro and into Albania on 25 November 1915.

The FRY remained outside of the conflicts, but provided logistic, military and financial support to Serb forces in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

It is worn on everyday basis by some villagers even today, and it was a common item of headgear among Bosnian Serb military commanders during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.

Rechner became a symbol of the United Nations incapacity to deal with Serb military aggression.

The city was founded in 1694, when Serb merchants formed a colony across the Danube from the Petrovaradin fortress, a Habsburg strategic military post.

In 1691, the Serbs who lived in the Habsburg Monarchy ( now Vojvodina province in northern Serbia ) gained from the Habsburg emperor the right to territorial autonomy within one separate voivodeship in the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as right to be ruled by a Serb voivode-a civil and military administrator.

*: On 17 May 2012 Albanian President, Bamir Topi awarded Rivera the " Medal of Gratitude " with the citation: " With profound gratitude and esteem, personality and prominent publicist, expensive friend of the Albanians, who made his cause the American public consciousness, and beyond, monstrous crime was making the Serb military machine, in 1999, against the Kosovo Albanian civilian population, thus revealing it as ethnic cleansing and genocide ".

On 2 March 1992, Serb paramilitaries set up barricades and sniper positions near Sarajevo's parliament building, but the threatened military coup d ' état was thwarted by thousands of Sarajevo citizens who took to the streets in front of the snipers.

Once towns and villages were securely in their hands, the Serb forces-the military, the police, the paramilitaries and, sometimes, even Serb villagers – applied the same pattern: Bosniak houses and apartments were systematically ransacked or burnt down, Bosniak civilians were rounded up or captured, and sometimes beaten or killed in the process.

Naser Orić ( born March 3, 1967 ) is a former Bosniak military officer who commanded the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina forces in the Srebrenica enclave in Eastern Bosnia surrounded by Serb forces, during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Emperor later recognized the Serb realm in turn for military aid ( foederati ) and nominal overlordship of the Emperor.

* Milovan Stankovic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander for the town and surrounding region.

On Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, the first fatal clashes occurred when Croatian police from the Croatian Ministry of the Interior ( MUP ) entered the Plitvice Lakes national park to expel rebel Serb forces.

Serb paramilitaries ambushed a bus carrying Croatian police into the national park on the road north of Korenica, sparking a day-long gun battle between the two sides.

The KLA engaged in tit-for-tat attacks against Serbian nationalists in Kosovo, reprisals against ethnic Albanians who " collaborated " with the Serbian government, and bombed police stations and cafes known to be frequented by Serb officials, killing innocent civilians in the process.

During this period war crimes were committed against the Serb and Jewish population, allegedly under former police chief Milivoj Ašner.

On 5 April, ethnic Serb policemen attacked police stations and then an Interior Ministry training school.

Survivors testified that Serb soldiers and police would visit the detention centres, select one or more women, take them out and rape them.

When Serb citizens complained they had been beaten by Albanian police, he told them that " No one has the right to beat you .... No one will beat you ever.

Some 150 Kosovo Serb police officers refused to take orders from the ethnic Albanian authorities and were suspended.

On 24 September the police announced that a new suspect, Mijailo Mijailović, born in Sweden to Serb parents, had been apprehended and arrested at the higher level of suspicion, " probable cause ".

All of the Serb forces ( i. e. the military, police, paramilitaries and sometimes, villagers too ) applied the same pattern: houses and apartments of the expelled population were systematically ransacked or burnt down ; remaining members of the Bosniak civilian population were rounded up or captured, and sometimes beaten or killed in the process.

In the Spring of 1999, the Yugoslav Army, Serbian police and Serb paramilitary, in an organized manner, with significant use of state resources, conducted a broad campaign of violence against Albanian civilians to expel them from Kosovo and thus maintain political control of Belgrade over the province.

Born in Sarajevo, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia to Herzegovinian Serb parents, police administrator Vladimir from Vlahovići village near Ljubinje and homemaker Stana Čolić from Trebinje, young Zdravko showed an early interest in sports.

Once towns and villages were securely in their hands, the Serb forces – military, police, the paramilitaries and, sometimes, even Serb villagers – applied the same pattern: houses and apartments were systematically ransacked or burnt down, civilians were rounded up or captured, and sometimes beaten or killed in the process.

Once towns and villages were securely in their hands, the Serb forces – military, police, the paramilitaries and, sometimes, even Serb villagers – applied the same pattern: Bosniak houses and apartments were systematically ransacked or burnt down, Bosniak civilians were rounded up or captured, and sometimes beaten or killed in the process.

By the end of April 1992, a number of clandestine Serb police stations were created in the municipality and more than 1, 500 armed Serbs were ready to take part in the takeover.

These plans were never hidden and they were implemented in a coordinated action by the Serb police, army and politicians.

It conducted persecutions against Bosniak refugees who were arrested by the Montenegrin police and transported to Serb camps in Foča, where they were executed.

* Croatia had to keep about sixty thousand Serb gendarmes, police and soldiers.

Bosnian Serb police eventually released them.

* 1991 – After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.

This suspicion was based on the presence of Serbian ultra-nationalist and former paramilitary Vojislav Šešelj being Prime Minister of Yugoslavia ; a fear of a repeat of atrocities similar to those committed by Serb forces in Bosnia ; and suspicion of Milošević's influence in the previous war atrocities.

On 11 October 1990, as the political, ethnic, and religious situation in the former Yugoslavia became tense ( see Log Revolution ), Arkan created a paramilitary group named the Serb Volunteer Guard, possibly under the auspices of the Department of State Security.

Specifically, it was recognised that Muslim women in Foča ( southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina ) were subjected to systematic and widespread gang rape, torture and sexual enslavement by Bosnian Serb soldiers, policemen, and members of paramilitary groups after the takeover of the city in April 1992.

Following a tense period of escalating tensions the opening shots in the incipient Bosnian conflict were fired when Serb paramilitary forces attacked Bosnian Croat villages around Capljina on 7 March 1992 and around Bosanski Brod and Bosniak town Goražde on 15 March.

Chetniks, or the Chetnik movement (, ; ), were a Serb nationalist and monarchist paramilitary organizations from the first half of the 20th century, formed as a resistance against the Ottoman Empire in 1904, and participating in the two Balkan Wars, World War I, and World War II.

It was the scene of attacks by the guerilla group, the " Kosovo Liberation Army ", in the late 1990s as they fought the occupying Serb paramilitary forces, accused of committing atrocities against the local Albanian population.

Various paramilitary units were operated during the Bosnian War: the Serb " White Eagles " ( Beli Orlovi ), Arkan's " Tigers ", " Serbian Volunteer Guard " ( Srpska Dobrovoljačka Garda ), Bosnians " Patriotic League " ( Patriotska Liga ) and " Green Berets " ( Zelene Beretke ), and Croatian " Croatian Defence Forces " ( Hrvatske Obrambene Snage ), etc.

The Serb Volunteer Guard ( SDG ) () also known as Arkan's Tigers () was a Serbian volunteer paramilitary unit, founded and led by Željko Ražnatović, that fought in Croatia ( 1991 – 1992 ); Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 1992 – 1995 ) and in the Kosovo War ( 1998 – 1999 ).

Another advantage, which became apparent in later stages of war, was in Partisans being founded on ideology rather than ethnicity, which meant the Partisans could expect at least some levels of support in any corner of the country, unlike other paramilitary formations whose support was limited to territories with Croat or Serb majorities.

* Željko Ražnatović ( 1952 – 2000 ), Serb paramilitary leader, also known as " Arkan "

On 19 May 1992, combined JNA, Serb paramilitary and Arkan's Tigers occupied Zvornik and Mali Zvornik.

Pavle met with Serb paramilitary leader, Željko Ražnatović Arkan, whom he claimed was justified in his actions and presented him with an autographed icon of Saint Nicholas.

A more ambivalent, predominantly Serb paramilitary movement of royalist Chetniks both fought the occupying forces and collaborated with them against the communists.

During the Bosnian War numerous religious and cultural monuments and landmarks were destroyed by various Serb paramilitary groups, such as the Croatian Roman Catholic Church in the centre of the town.

Judge Judge Alphons Orie observed that " Krajisnik's role in the commission of the crimes was crucial ... His positions within the Bosnian Serb leadership gave him the authority to facilitate the military, police and paramilitary groups to implement the objective of the joint criminal enterprise.

In 1990, an armed insurrection was started by Croatian Serb militias, supported by the Serbian government and paramilitary groups, who seized control of Serb-populated areas of Croatia.

Bosnian Serb Army and paramilitary forces affiliated with them burned Bosniak civilians alive in houses, slaughtered hundreds of men, women and children and threw them over the famous bridge.

On 29 March 1991, the Plitvice Lakes management was expelled by rebel Krajina Serb police under the control of Milan Martić, supported by paramilitary volunteers from Serbia proper under the command of Vojislav Šešelj.