Milosevic ‘directed’ killing unit

FORMER Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s police directly controlled a notorious Serb armed unit known as the Scorpions and gave them a license to kill in Bosnia and Kosovo, a police document showed yesterday.

Milosevic ‘directed’ killing unit

The unit was one of the several Serbian paramilitary contingents that spread fear and conducted massive ethnic cleansing operations against non-Serbs in the Balkans wars in the 1990s, prominent military analyst Dejan Anastasijevic said.

The Scorpions, some 150 shaven-head men, gained international notoriety last week when a gruesome video of the July 1995 executions of six Bosnian Muslim prisoners near Srebrenica was shown on Serbian television.

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