Serb Volunteer Guard
| Serbian Volunteer Guard Српска добровољачка гарда |
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Flag of the Serbian Volunteer Guard
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| Active | 1990–1996 (became part of the JSO) |
| Type | Paramilitary organization |
| Size | 500–1,000 |
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Belgrade, Serbia Erdut, Croatia |
| Nickname(s) | Arkan's Tigers |
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| Disbanded | 1996 |
| Commanders | |
| 1st Commander | Željko Ražnatović Arkan |
| 2nd Commander | Borislav Pelević |
| 3rd Commander | Milorad Ulemek Legija |
| 4th Commander | Zvezdan Jovanović |
The Serb Volunteer Guard (SDG) (Serbian: Српска добровољачка гарда, Srpska dobrovoljačka garda) also known as Arkan's Tigers (Арканови Тигрови, Arkanovi Tigrovi) was a Serbian volunteer paramilitary unit founded and led by Željko Ražnatović (known as Arkan) that fought in Croatia (1991–93) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–95) during the Yugoslav Wars.
The Guard was created on 11 October 1990 by twenty members of the Red Star Belgrade football club Ultra group Delije Sever. The Guard's headquarters and training camp was in Erdut, SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia, a part of the Republic of Serbian Krajina between 1991 and 1995. The Guard was under the command of the Territorial Defense, a regular military in charge of the territories of Croatia populated predominantly by Serbs during the first half of the 1990s.
The Serb Volunteer Guard set up their headquarters and training camp in a former military facility in Erdut. It saw action from mid-1991 to late 1995, initially in the Vukovar region of Croatia. It was supplied and equipped from the reserves of the Serbian police force during the War in Croatia and Bosnia.
After war broke out in the former Yugoslav republic of Croatia in the fall of 1991 and in Bosnia in April 1992, Arkan and his units moved to attack different territories in these countries. In Croatia, the Tigers fought in various locales in SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia.
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