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Željko Ražnatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Жељко Ражнатовић, pronounced [ʒêːʎko raʒnâːtoʋitɕ]; 17 April 1952 – 15 January 2000), better known as Arkan (Serbian Cyrillic: Аркан), was a Serbian mobster and head of the Serb paramilitary force called the Serb Volunteer Guard during the Yugoslav Wars.
Arkan is accused of being behind the 1991 massacres in Eastern Slavonia in Croatia, and of orchestrating a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosnian Moslems in eastern Bosnia. Some 14-hundred...
Arkan: The Balkan's Most Dangerous ManMilitary commander, politician, sports administrator, and head of the Serb paramilitary force during the Yugoslav Wars...
Jan 15, 2024 · Arkan – real name Zeljko Raznatovic – was the most notorious Serbian paramilitary chief of the 1990s wars. His unit, the Serbian Volunteer Guard, or Arkan’s Tigers as they were known, was...
Jan 15, 2020 · The murder 20 years ago of notorious paramilitary chief Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, meant he never stood trial for war crimes - and two decades later, only one member of his much-feared...
Apr 4, 2022 · Brutal attacks by warlord Arkan’s Serb paramilitaries on unarmed civilians living in the city of Bijeljina, captured in photographs that shocked the world, signalled the start of the war in ...
Dec 9, 2014 · The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) has released an investigation questioning the absence of legal action against the paramilitaries led by notorious Serbian warlord Raznatovic, alias...
Jan 15, 2000 · Gangster's life of Serb warlord. Zeljko Raznatovic: Known around the world as Arkan. By Balkans correspondent Paul Wood. Juvenile delinquent, bank robber, agent of the secret police, businessman,...
Arkan, death of a warlord: Special report. Thousands bid farewell. Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of assassinated Serbian paramilitary leader Zeljko Raznatovic 'Arkan' after he was...
Mar 8, 2008 · Using his prison connections, Arkan rallied gangs of violent thugs to carry out crimes on behalf of Milosevic's regime. Arkan's "Tigers" were blamed for committing atrocities in Bosnia,...
