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aylinminbabe t1_j9tjh7y wrote

Reply to comment by Doctor_Impossible_ in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

I could be wrong, but wasn’t there a military group under the war that consisted of people with previous crimes but still had the freedom to do basically anything to the Bosniaks?

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Doctor_Impossible_ t1_j9tnu72 wrote

I don't know of a penal unit like that (although one may very well have existed!), but a great many units were free to persecute Bosniaks, and many have been named, such as the Serb Volunteer Guard, Chetnik Avengers, White Eagles, etc. Serbian paramilitaries were used to 'cleanse' their local areas of other ethnic groups, often simply committing mass murder.

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