Decades after a death squad massacred civilians in Bosnia, none of the infamous combat unit 'Arkan’s Tigers' have stood trial for their alleged part in those crimes. One former member of Arkan’s Tigers has had a second act spinning techno records at clubs
, that the victims were Serbs. Photographs, after all, can be faked, the context misconstrued. Disinformation has swirled for years around the image, some of it initiated by Arkan himself, and circulated on social media.
Prosecutors have long stressed that a photograph, while powerful, is only as good as the witness evidence that comes with it. And this case, in particular, is complicated. But there are thought to have been hundreds of members of Arkan’s Tigers, many of whom are alive today, and countless crimes that have gone unpunished.
Dženita followed Alma’s case, hoping it would lead somewhere. She spoke with ICTY investigators in Germany, where she was a refugee, in the mid-Nineties. She waited to be called to testify about her husband’s killing, and the massacre she survived. But no one ever contacted her. The court sentenced two top intelligence officials — one of whom enjoyed close ties to the CIA, which submitted a classified document to the ICTY in his defense — to 12 years in prison, including time served.
There is plenty Haviv’s photo couldn’t say. It can’t explain how young men like Golubović were drafted at age 18 into the Yugoslav People’s Army. A man we’ll call Mirko, who’s in his forties and grew up in the same neighborhood as Golubović, frequently attending his raves, says Golubović was “manipulated” to join Arkan’s Tigers.
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