In his youth, Ražnatović aspired to become a pilot as his father had been. In a 1991 interview he recalled: "He didn't really hit me in a classical sense, he'd basically grab me and slam me against the floor." He grew up with three older sisters in a strict, militaristic patriarchal household with regular physical abuse from his father. Infant Željko spent part of his childhood in Zagreb ( SR Croatia) and Pančevo ( SR Serbia), before his father's job eventually took the family to the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade (SR Serbia), which is considered his hometown. Veljko was stationed in Slovenian Styria at the time when his fourth child Željko was born. Later on, Veljko served as a decorated officer in the SFR-Yugoslav Air Force, being highly ranked for his notable involvement in World War II. His father Veljko, was born in Rijeka Crnojevića near Cetinje, and had taken part in the Partisan liberation of Priština ( Kosovo) during World War II. Željko Ražnatović was born in Brežice, a small border town in Lower Styria, PR Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia. Up until his assassination in January 2000, Ražnatović was the most powerful organized crime figure in the Balkans. He was on Interpol's most wanted list in the 1970s and 1980s for robberies and murders committed in a number of countries across Europe, and was later indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity. Željko Ražnatović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Жељко Ражнатовић, pronounced 17 April 1952 – 15 January 2000), better known as Arkan ( Serbian Cyrillic: Аркан), was a Serbian mobster, politician, sports administrator, paramilitary commander and head of the Serb paramilitary force called the Serb Volunteer Guard during the Yugoslav Wars.
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