Scorpions (paramilitary)

Scorpions (paramilitary)

The Scorpions ("Škorpioni") were a Serbian paramilitary group which defended the Serbian population and 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 Croatian Serb Republic of Serbian Krajina. The Scorpion leader was Slobodan Medić. [http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=9071 Serbia sentences its Scorpions] ]

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