By disbanding the army and going to Italy, King Nikola Petrović committed treason and left the people to the Austro-Hungarian occupier, it is stated, among other things, in the proposal of the resolution "Never again in 1916", which the Democratic Front (DF) parliamentary club will submit to the Parliament of Montenegro by the end of the week .
The Democratic Front claims that the Resolution condemning the capitulation of the Kingdom of Montenegro in the First World War is a response to the Resolution on annulling the decisions of the Podgorica Assembly, proposed by the ruling coalition.
The members of the authorities demanded that the decisions of the Podgorica Assembly be declared null and void because its constitution was the instrument used to carry out the coup in Montenegro. According to the knowledge of "Vijesti", the resolution proposal of the ruling coalition should be discussed on November 29.
"We have a case where the DPS conducts an extremely aggressive policy based on historical falsifications, so it is necessary, for the sake of the citizens of Montenegro, for the sake of the truth and overcoming difficult divisions in the country, to respond to all this with the facts contained in our resolution. That is, to defend the achievements of our ancestors and traditional Montenegro", said DF deputy Jovan Vučurović.
In the proposal of the Resolution, which "Vijesti" had access to, it is stated, among other things, that "the act of capitulation of the Kingdom of Montenegro should be condemned because after that its territory de facto became part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, which someone had to liberate".
It is also emphasized that the "capitulant policy of the Montenegrin government" produced bad consequences for the people of Montenegro, the army and its officers, but also for King Nikola himself "who in a difficult and stormy time could not assess the far-reaching impact of such a procedure".
"The Montenegrin government, by disbanding the army and leaving the country, left the people, soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers at the mercy of the occupier. During the occupation, these people went through terror and Golgotha, killed, persecuted, interned in camps," states the proposal of the Resolution.
It is also emphasized that the Army of the Kingdom of Montenegro fulfilled its military tasks in the operations of 1915 and 1916, stopping the advance of the Austro-Hungarian army and enabling the conditions for an unhindered retreat of the Army of the Kingdom of Montenegro and the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia towards Greece.
In the proposal of the Resolution, it is stated that the fulfillment of the agreement between the Kingdom of Montenegro and the Kingdom of Serbia, including the withdrawal of the two armies from the occupied territories, did not occur because "the Montenegrin authorities did not respect the agreement but signed a shameful act of capitulation".
In the DF, they believe that because of this, the parliament should condemn the actions of the then authorities of the Kingdom of Montenegro.
"Who disgraced our heroic army, disbanding it after the victory at Mojkovac, and then signed the capitulation. With this, the government at that time deviated from the proclaimed war goals, which are contained in the Proclamation that King Nicholas, on behalf of the Kingdom of Montenegro, sent at the beginning of the Great War", the text of the Resolution states.
It is also stated that the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which was established after the First World War, paid real monetary compensation to the Petrović dynasty for the property that was taken from it in the country and assumed the obligation to give regular monetary appanage to all members of the dynasty so that they could live carefree . It is also emphasized that this money was paid out until 1945.
"Even by the Royal Government of Yugoslavia in London during the Second World War, which was abolished by Josip Broz Tito after the Petrović dynasty came to power and the formation of communist Yugoslavia. We remind you that during the war Prince Mihailo Petrović, following the patriotism of his great ancestors, and expressing loyalty to the Karađorđević dynasty, refused the offer of the Italian fascists and their servants led by Sekul Drljević to become the king of Montenegro", the DF proposal states.
Without the Montenegrin army on the Thessaloniki front
In the proposal of the Resolution, it is also warned that due to the decision of King Nikola, the Montenegrin army "did not exist on the Thessaloniki front".
"After the shameful act of surrender, the largest number of officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers were already interned by the occupiers in several camps located on the territory of today's Hungary. Those who did not finish there, but managed to move to Thessaloniki, and these are thousands of volunteers from Montenegro and Boka, participated in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia in the breakthrough of the Thessaloniki front and thus defended the honor of our great ancestors. We believe that the daily political treatment of topics from this period unfairly casts a shadow over one of the most difficult events in the history of this area, slavery under Austria-Hungary after the capitulation and the famous hungry years," states the document, which is a response to the ruling coalition's resolution.
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