Post by oldhippy on Dec 1, 2019 21:49:05 GMT
By Roland Bartetzko, former German Army, Croatian Defense Council, Kosovo Liberation Army
However, we never came close to Arkan’s so-called “Tigers”. Later, the Croats brought in another brigade from Croatia to help us. This one was the 1. Guards Brigade (Croatian Army), the so-called Croatian “Tigers”.
I remember that some journalists mentioned the fact that on both sides a unit named “Tigers” was fighting. They called it “tigers against tigers”.
The battle ended with a decisive Croatian victory. Arkan admitted on Serb television that he had lost more than eighty soldiers. From the Wikipedia[1] article:
In autumn 1995, Arkan's troops fought in the area of Banja Luka, Sanski Most and Prijedor where they were routed.
Later on in Kosovo, I heard that Arkan’s units were deployed in an area near the Albanian border to the south. My unit, however, was fighting in the north of the country and we never heard from them. We didn’t care against which unit we were fighting, anyway. For us, it was all the same.
An interesting fact is that my workplace is situated just across the street from where Arkan had his headquarters during the Kosovo War. While I’m writing this answer, I can look outside the window and see the entrance of the building from where Arkan had once organized his crimes.