“Serbs create video games simulating the Prekaz attack

Get in the hole, get in the hole. Here's your enemy, 200 yards from you, in the bushes (...)”, says a male voice, while an animated soldier escapes the virtual shell.

“was killed. The sniper seems to be seeing us clearly from that bush. Cover me to run and drop the” bomb. In seconds there's a blast, but the shooting continues.

This is not from any war film, but the conversation of a group of players playing a video game, in which one of the missions is for members of the Republika Srpska Army to prevent Croatian forces from conducting military-cope operation “Storm”, which took place in real life in August 1995.

According to a research by Radio Free Europe (REL), several video games can be found on the Internet in which military conflicts, which have occurred in the former Yugoslavia, and there, as part of missions, can also be found on the Internet, as well as <x1).

Currently, the most famous platform in Serbia is “arma Srbija”, where users gather to play real-time online simultaneously.

It's about the so-called video game, the first shooter, (First-personshooter FPS), in which players are part of a certain army and fight against computer robots, leading a rival army.

They publish their video games on YouTube platform on the same name, which has about 2,400 followers.

Thus, on October 23rd, a video of the group, titled “, was published Current war: Operation Anti-terrorist in Rahovica”. Players are dressed in uniforms disguised in Serbian police marks.

The game takes place in the village area near Presevo, south of Serbia, and the video description says the operation, “followed the provocations of Albanian terrorists near Rakovica on May 13th 2001”.

On that day, from the direction of the Loki region at 6:10 a.m., fire was opened against the infantry on a hill over Rahovica. Later, at 7: 00 a.m., from the direction of the village of Rahovica, extremists opened fire on security forces' positions”, the description of the mission is said. The video has about 900 hits.

Presevo is located in southern Serbia, and according to the latest census, about 80 percent of the population are Albanians. Operation “Rahovica” in real life took place in May 2001, when the Yugoslav armed forces surrounded the ethnically Albanian village of Rahovica, taking control of this village that was controlled by members of the Presevo Liberation Army, Medvedja and Bujanovac.

One of the “Arma Srbija” missions is also “Operation Jashari”, which simulates the Serbian police action in March 1998, when one of the KLA commanders (Kosovo Liberation Army), Adem Jashar, was killed, along with more than 50 members of his family.

Our task is to liquidate Adam Jasharin”, the video description that is published, says in March of last year and so far, there are about 85,000 views.

In February 2019, the next mission, “Operation Recak”, was published on this platform. In real life, 45 Albanian civilians were killed in the Serbian police operation in January 1999 in Recak, which was one of the strongest reasons for the international community to begin NATO's intervention in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 24 March 1999.

In describing the operation in this video game, Recak's asshole is not mentioned at all.

“Following the operation plan, MUP (Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs) were divided into two groups. The first group was tasked with crossing quays over the village and occupying it so that they could secure entry and block the route to attract terrorists. And the second group would attack the village itself. The entire operation was backed by the 243 mechanised Yugoslav Army Brigade unit, which held a position east of village “, the description reportedly The video.

The same channel on YouTube can also find the group with the appointment group “Operation Srboburn 1992”, which simulated the war of members of the Republika Srpska Army on today's territory of Donji Vakuf (from 1992 to 1995) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) against the BiH Army. This video was released on October 8th and has approximately 1,000 views.

In real life, some people have been indicted for this war crime, and the case is under the jurisdiction of the Special War Crimes Department, within the Bosnia and Herzegovina Prosecutor's Office, which accuses indictees of killing 28 Bosniak and Croat civilians.

In addition to missions performed in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, platform participants also play as members of other armies from around the world from Afghanistan to the Philippines.

One of the international missions that has been published is called “Vagner”, which has Libya's location. In real life, Wagner is a Russian paramilitary unit and one of its last missions was in Libya.

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