“of Arkan that killed Albanians in Bosnia, walks free like DJ across Europe

Thirty years after a team of deaths massacred civilians in Bosnia, none of the notorious Arkan's “Tigers” have come to trial for their alleged role in those crimes. And for the past few decades, one of them has achieved fame and money at European festivals and clubs.

It's just about DJ Max or Srdjan Golubovic.

Golubovich's exploits have spoken of American photographs, Ron Haviv, who was then young. He had met the Arkan Tigers in Croatia, where he had photographed them.

Arkan had particularly enjoyed a photograph - the paramilitary commander standing before his uniformed men, posting with a baby tiger in one hand and a gun in the other. Haviv stayed with the Tigers for a day on April 2, 1992.

Haviv, now a well-known and awarded photographer, caught one of the first apparent crimes of the Bosnian War. One of the photos since then has become a symbol of war itself. Haviv hoped that this would lead to responsibility, that it could help save lives.

But 30 years later, many of the Tigers of Arkan that day still walk free. One of them, in fact, is living a very public life. You can find it in a club, depending on where you party, writes the Rolling Stone” in a long research article.

The article further discusses the character Janet (Dzeenia), who is said to have lived a quiet life in Bijeljina, Bosnia, for the rest of her life. But the war came quickly. Now, a tired man was beating her neighbor Admir Shabanovic (Admir ãobanov), a young man in his late 20s, known as Addo.

Seeing the blood sprinkled on the basement floor, Janet kept her son by her side and begged that they not be killed. “If we get shot”, she remembers thinking, “is better from behind. They're gonna kill my son right now, and that's the end of”.

Some people ran out of the basement, but they didn't get far. Outside the commandos, with weapons packed, they shouted at Obadiah and Hamijet Pajazit (Abdiram and Hamijet Pajaziti), a couple in their 30 ' s trying to escape. They also shouted at Haviv to stop taking pictures. Haviv thinks he's back to take refuge behind a truck. I heard several shots walking “, Haviv says. I was able to see between the truck cabin and the rest of the truck container... I saw the man shot, and the woman trying to save him. Hamitha tenderly held her husband's hand while Obadiah was dying.

I took two photos and then decided to go back to”, Haviv says. And as I was coming back, they shot him (Hamil)”.

In the meantime, Rexhep Shabanovic (Redèep ãobanovic), Admir's father, was still lying in the yard. Janet could see his body from inside the house. He had tried to escape when the Tigers of Arkan entered, recalls Janet. Now, he was dead.

“Tifa [Ghepi's wife] wanted to approach”, she says. The Arkan's “People were at home and started shooting at it”.

Haviv, still outside, watched as the men brought Tiffe before the red brick wall that surrounded the house. His view was partially blocked after more shots were heard. The body of Tiphas was lying on the ground by the body of Obadiah and Hamijet, with his hands on his head. Have a picture.

I don't know who shot”, Haviv says today. But it was clear that the Tigers of Arkan were gathering and targeting civilians. It's almost impossible for someone other than these guys to shoot these people”.

Janet, still in the basement, heard the shots and panicked, repeating to the commandos that she was pregnant. A long man of dark hair, who stood before him as a deputy of Arkan, cried out to his men to stop shootings; and they brought out women and children. She never saw her husband alive again.

The young couple were in their years <x0 beautiful”, she says. They were newly married who stayed in cafes, laughed at friends, dined with their parents. Now, that dream was over. Her sister-in-law would identify Muhammad at the morgue the next day. Arkan's men, says Janet, “had to come and destroy everything”.

As the men passed Janet in front of the front gate, she saw Tiff lying on the sidewalk. “Oh, mother”, cried out Tifa. She was alive, bleeding. Admir Shabanovic, beaten and arrested by Tigers across the street, ran towards the wall near the mosque. He was too high to climb. He turned, hid in the corner and “ta shot him, as a joke”, recalls Haviv. I was witness to that moment”.

As the Tigers prepared to leave, Haviv realized there was no evidence for suspected authors in the same context as their victims. “Texa was fixing the device, [a commando] coming from my left”, he says. Haviv recognised him as the bold “yalo, who had photographed him earlier that day in Bijeljina, smiling on a blue motorcycle “Suzuki” In his uniform was a black piece with a tiger, with teeth discovered. The Cyrillic sign wrote: Tigers.

Haviv fired a single view of commando. It's an amazing picture: a tired young man with a dark face, with a rocket launcher on his back. The sun's glasses above his head, a burning cigarette hanging from his left hand. The man shakes his black boot toward Tifas, to her crushed body near Obadiah and Hamijet, also shot. Two men in uniform pass by, with guns in their hands, while blood is poured into concrete.

Haviv left the scene as soon as he could, stopping at the battlehouse in Bijeljina to take a last photograph of a young man, Hajrush Ziberi, in order to prove that the Tigers of Arkan had banned him. In the view, it's Ziber asking for life. Ziber's body was said to be located later on the Sava River.

I wanted to get out of there”, Haviv says. But first, Arkan himself took the film from Haviv from his camera, the documentation of daily violence. But other films of flash pictures, which Haviv hid, contain some of the only photos taken by the massacre in Bijelina.

Yet, despite the embarrassing picture, photographed men have never been tried for their alleged involvement in the Bijeljina murders. While courts in the Balkans have indicted hundreds of people for crimes committed during the war in a trial that has taken decades, hundreds of war crimes cases throughout the region remain unresolved. In Bijelina, as many countries throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, people accused of atrocities walk the same streets as their victims. Most of the Arkan Tigers have not faced consequences for allegedly killing, raping, robbing and deportation civilians from their homes.

By the end of 1995, the war in Bosnia was over, and an underground sand scene was flourishing in Belgrade. For city youth, it was a welcome distraction from the overwhelming reality of everyday life. Hyperinflation of the early 1990s caused many to fail to cope with basic goods. The sanctions prevented international imports and exports and air travel for years. The Internet was not yet popular, and propaganda polluted the information landscape.

Somewhere else in the world, the mid - ninety ' s was the age of Tupac, Oasis, and Fugees. But in Serbia, most young people could not afford or have access to data. Many turned their radios to B92, an underground Serbian station that challenged the nationalism of the hard line of the time, broadcasting news from the outside world along with rock and electronic music.

“The electronic scene was linked to the anti-war movement”, says Sasa, a former techno expert and passionate listener of B92, now in his 40s, who attended Belgrade's protests in the 1990s. “was an escape from our daily life”. What Sasha and other electronic music fans at the time did not know was that one of the promising youth in the scene, Srdjan Golubovic (written weight of Srdjan Golubovic in English, and not to be confused with the movie director with the same name), was wearing the Arkan Tigers' uniform. He had been a warrior in the fight they were protesting. He would be charged, by local press and members of the public, that he was the young man in uniform, whom Haviv photographed in 1992, with high boots, targeting the blood-blooded body of Tifa Shabanovich.

When it was established in Bosnia, according to numerous sources, members of the Tigran Tigers named it Max. At the Belgrade holidays, people called it “Captain Max”. At the rave music party and concerts, he was DJ Max, the name he still performs, although his performances are rarer these days.

“It is disgusting”, says Sasha, who asked to be identified only by his name. “Rolling Stone” has examined many photos from Haviv, conducted in Bijeljina on April 2nd, five of which seem to show Golubovici. On one, he is in a hospital talking to two women, their faces distorted by fear or grief. In another, he was shot on patrol with the Tigers of Arkan. And in one, which “Rolling Stone” is publishing for the first time, a young baby-faced Golubovic sits in a “Suzuki” blue. The picture has been taken the same day as the massacre, Haviv says, and is the most obvious photograph so far to show Golubovici's presence in Bijeljina. Two Bijeljina residents say they recognise the old buildings in the photograph, several minutes from the site of the massacre.

Golubovic rejected numerous interview requests to respond to claims that he had played a role in the mass killings in Bijelina. “Rolling Stone” sent him two photos taken by Haviv to Haviv's most famous picture in Bijeljina, and previously unpublished motorcycle photo. I'm not giving my consent to my name or photo mentioned in your article”, Golubovic wrote in response to Viber. I consulted my lawyer and, as I realized, it is not legal to publish any false information about someone”.

“The Rolling Stone” continues with further evidence of the massacre in Bijelina.

What should be emphasized, however, is that three victims of this massacre, which is witnessed by already well - known Haviv photographs, are Albanian: Obadiah and Hamijet Pajaziti, and Hajrush Ziber.