It was the armed wing of the Serbian National Renewal and volunteer unit.

[1] The unit was active in the Yugoslav wars, mainly in Croatia in 1991, and in 1992 it also took part of the Serb assault on Zvornik, Bosnia, and the subsequent massacre of Bosniak civilians in that city.

[3] The Dušan the Mighty paramilitary unit was deployed into western Slavonia in 1991, during the start of the Croatian War of Independence; prior to this, the paramilitary was created by members of the Serbian National Renewal around early 1991.

[7] The fighting lasted for some two hours and only stopped when several armoured personnel carriers of the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) intervened.

[8] On October 18, 1991, Serbian forces supported by the Dušan the Mighty militia captured about 50 Croatian citizens from the town of Lovas, where they were sent to an agricultural cooperative.