Since the collapse of the SFRY, and especially in the last four years, the Montenegrin public has been faced with revisionist and falsified interpretations of events from World War II, say the Civic Initiative "21 May".
As they said, "local Greater Serbian parties and their suppliers, and especially the Serbian Orthodox Church clergy," persistently strive to falsely present the collaborationist and criminal Chetnik movement from World War II as "patriotic and liberating."
"That is also the reason why we want to remind the public of the crimes of the Montenegrin Chetniks that took place during January and February 1943. It was a genocidal military action conceived at the headquarters of Draža Mihailović and carried out by Chetnik units under the command of Pavle Đurišić. The goal of this monstrous operation was the destruction of the Muslim population in the Bijelo Polje district and in the area of Pljevlja, Priboj, Čajniče and Foča. Thus, around 400 men and around a thousand women and children were killed in the Lim valley. After that, by mid-February 1943, including the suffering in the other mentioned areas, more than a thousand men and around eight thousand women and children were killed. As a reminder, the National Commission of Montenegro for Establishing the Crimes of the Occupiers and Their Helpers in Crimes Against the Muslim Population in the Pljevlja District in February 1943, determined that 245 adult men and 1.107 women and children were killed," it is written in press release.
These crimes, they add, reflected the chauvinistic nature of the Chetnik movement in Montenegro, "which has long been known and elucidated in Montenegrin, Yugoslav and international historiography."
"That is why it is important to teach about this in schools and for the general public to know that a civil, multiethnic and humane Montenegro excludes the rehabilitation of the criminal and treacherous Chetnik movement," say the GI "21 May".
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