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State Security Directorate (Serbia)
The State Security Directorate ( sr, Ресор државне безбедности, Resor državne bezbednosti; abbr. РДБ / RDB), or simply State Security ( sr, Државна безбедност, Državna bezbednost; abbr. ДБ / DB), was the security agency within the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia), Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia tasked with protecting the country from internal threats. History The State Security Directorate was formed in March 1991 after the dissolution of Directorate for State Security (Yugoslavia), State Security Service (SDB). According to the indictment in the series of trials before the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the ''Serbian Special Forces'', also known as ''Serbian Paramilitaries'', were secretly established by or with the assistance of the State Security Directorate. Among those were Serb Volunteer Guard (Arkan's Tigers), Special Operations Unit (Serbia), Special Operations Unit (Red Berets) and Scorpions (p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Directorate For State Security (Yugoslavia)
The State Security Service, also known by its original name as the Directorate for State Security, was the secret police organization of Communist Yugoslavia. It was at all times best known by the acronym UDBA, which is derived from the organization's original name in the Serbo-Croatian language: "''Uprava državne bezbednosti''" ("Directorate for State Security"). The acronyms SDB (Serbian) or SDS (Croatian) were used officially after the organization was renamed into "State Security Service". In its latter decades it was composed of eight semi-independent secret police organizations—one for each of the six Yugoslav federal republics and two for the autonomous provinces—coordinated by the central federal headquarters in the capital of Belgrade. Although it operated with more restraint than secret police agencies in the communist states of Eastern Europe, the UDBA was a feared tool of control. It is alleged that the UDBA was responsible for the "eliminations" of dozens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
