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20-407: GVG may refer to: Gray Viking Games, LLC Greek Volunteer Guard Vigabatrin , by designation GVG Grass Valley (company) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title GVG . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

40-597: A Greek nationalist political party. They were allegedly motivated to support their Orthodox brothers in battle. Archbishop Seraphim of Athens invited Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić to visit Athens in 1993. At a rally there, Karadžić proclaimed: "We have only God and the Greeks on our side." In 2002 the Dutch NIOD report on Srebrenica described how the Greek Volunteer Guard, had hoisted

60-613: A call for Greece to officially apologise to the victims of Srebrenica for any Greek presence in the area of the massacre. After asserting that the Greek public had been "misinformed" about the alliance with the Bosnian Serb forces, their statement called for the Greek state to apologise publicly to the families of the victims, to indict the Greek 'volunteers' who had been present in Bosnia alongside Karadzic and Mladic and who had dishonoured

80-495: A clear case of judicial harassment. Referring to the quality, thoroughness, and courage of Michas's reporting of the Greek "volunteers"'military support to the Bosnian Serbs, and successive Greek governments' reluctance to investigate the issue, the organisation found the "self-censorship" of the Greek political class and media about the presence of any Greek paramilitaries or mercenaries forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina during

100-430: A representative of the Greek volunteers, announced that he was suing Michas over allegations in his book Unholy Alliance . Vitalis maintained that the volunteers were members of the Bosnian Serb army who had taken part in what he described as the town's "re-occupation". In his press statement he acknowledged that "I was present with a group of senior Serb officers in all the operations for the re-occupation of Srebrenica by

120-642: The Greek Volunteer Guard took part in the Srebrenica massacre and raised the Greek flag over Srebrenica . At the last minute Stavros Vitalis, a former Greek officer in the Bosnian Serb Army who considered the quoted use of the term "paramilitary" an insult to the Greek volunteer forces in Bosnia, abandoned the action. The quality, thoroughness and courage of Michas's reporting of the military support that Greek "volunteers" gave

140-539: The Greek flag by raising it over the carnage at Srebrenica, and to pursue the 'supposedly unknown' people who had manipulated them. In 2006, the Minister of Justice , Anastasios Papaligouras , commissioned an inquiry and in 2011, a judge said there was not enough evidence to proceed. In 2007 in the paper Eleftheri ora , Kyriakos Katharios , a member of the Greek Volunteer Guard, denied that they had participated in

160-417: The Greek flag over Srebrenica after the town's fall, citing video footage of the event and excerpts from intercepted Bosnian Serb army telephone communications that included Gen. Ratko Mladić 's specific request for the Greek flag to be hoisted over the town to honour "the brave Greeks fighting on our side. " The Report also revealed that the Greek government had sent shipments of light arms and ammunition to

180-588: The Order of White Eagle by Karadžić. In the Ingeborg Beugel 's documentary "The Greek way" by Dutch public broadcaster IKON , which investigated Greek solidarity with Serbia in the Bosnian war , a director of the semi-official Athens News Agency , Nikolas Voulelis , admitted to widespread censorship in the Greek media , "Editorial interference was a given." said Voulelis. In 2009, Stavros Vitalis ,

200-433: The Bosnian Serb army between 1994 and 1995. According to a report by Agence France Presse (AFP), a dozen Greek volunteers were fighting alongside Serb forces at the time of the Srebrenica massacre . The GVG's involvement in the attack on Srebrenica was reported in the Greek media and several volunteers were interviewed there. In his book Unholy Alliance , published in 2002, the Greek author Takis Michas referred to

220-478: The Bosnian Serb side during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and the reluctance of successive Greek governments to investigate the issue was highlighted in Reporters Sans Frontieres 's criticism of what the organisation described as a "surreal" action and a clear case of judicial harassment. Michas is the author of the following books: "H Μαυρη Βιβλος της Ελληνικης Οικονομιας" (The Black Book of

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240-772: The Greek Volunteer Guard (ΕΕΦ), a contingent of one hundred Greek paramilitaries formed at the request of the Chief of Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladić , became a regular fighting unit of the Drina Corps with its own insignia, a white double-headed eagle on a black background. The unit, led by Serb officers, was based in Vlasenica , a town in the Drina Valley . Some of the volunteers allegedly had links with Golden Dawn (Χρυσή Αυγή),

260-459: The Serbs". This was despite Vitalis having told the journalist Barnaby Phillips that, although in Bosnia, he was not at Srebrenica when it fell to the Serbs. Vitalis also claimed that Greek volunteers travelled to the conflict area with the knowledge of senior Greek politicians. Michas focused on inaction : "No-one tried to stop them and the Greek legal authorities made no attempt to assist

280-488: The Srebrenica massacre, "surprising and disturbing". Reporters Sans Frontieres called for further examination of the role of the Greek authorities. On 17 September, shortly before the court hearing was due to commence, Vitalis withdrew from the action. In 2005, Greek deputy Andreas Andrianopoulos called for an investigation. On 10 July 2005, 163 Greek academics, politicians, journalists and political activists issued

300-468: The claim reported by the Sarajevo weekly review Global that a dozen Greek paramilitaries had been present in the area of the Srebrenica massacre and had raised the Greek flag over the town, reproducing pictures of the volunteers published in the Greek press. Michas also said that Radovan Karadžić had subsequently decorated the volunteers. In September 1995, four of the unit's fighters were awarded

320-958: The crisis in Poland during the 1980s. In 2002 he received the Greek Botsis Prize for Journalism for his reports on Slobodan Milosevic’s bank assets in Greece. He has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, the National Interest, the New Republic, Huffington Post, Greek journals and others. He was nominated for the 2011 Bastiat Prize for three articles: "Greece's Bailout Brinksmanship", "Athens Descends into Anarchy", and "A Greek Tragedy". In 2010 he faced an action for criminal libel following his reference in an article for Eleftherotypia to allegations that

340-499: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GVG&oldid=932859652 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Greek Volunteer Guard The Greek Volunteer Guard ( Serbian : Грчка Добровољачка Гарда Grčka Dobrovoljačka Garda ; Greek : Ελληνική Εθελοντική Φρουρά Elliniki Ethelodiki Froura )

360-544: The massacre. While acknowledging the raising of the Greek flag , he stated that the honours received from Mladić were not linked to the incident. In an interview with Al-Jazeera Katharios claimed that he had been telephoned at home by fellow volunteers who told him that they had raised the flag but had not taken part in the battle itself. Takis Michas In 1989 he received the European Union Journalists Award for his published columns on

380-512: The work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague by pursuing inquiries about crimes the volunteers may have committed themselves or known about". The suit against Michas was funded by an umbrella group of right-wing Greek nationalists. The campaigning organisation Reporters Sans Frontieres urged the Greek court to dismiss the legal action, which it described as "surreal" and

400-631: Was a unit of Greek volunteers that fought in the Bosnian War on the side of the Army of the Republika Srpska . Some members of the unit are alleged to have been present in the area of the Srebrenica massacre and reportedly hoisted a Greek flag over the town, which was recorded 'for marketing purposes'. The first detachment of Greek volunteers in Bosnia arrived in 1993. In March 1995,

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