At today's session of the Parliament of Montenegro, an Inquiry Committee was formed to deal with the murders and attacks on journalists, police officers, politicians and free intellectuals by police officers known as the "black three".
Andrija Nikolić, a member of parliament from the opposition Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), was elected president, and Milan Knežević, a member of parliament from the Democratic People's Party (DNP), was elected deputy, while Bogdan Božović, a representative of the Socialist People's Party (SNP), will be the rapporteur.
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In addition to the three of them, this body will also include Gordan Stojović from the Europe Now Movement (PES), the head of parliament and MP from the New Serbian Democracy (NSD) Andrija Mandić, Momčilo Leković (Democratic Montenegro), Oskar Huter (Democratic Party of Socialists - DPS), Nikola Zirojević (Social Democrats - SD), Filip Adžić (Civil Movement URA) and Vladimir Dobričanin (United Montenegro).
The head of the Democratic Party parliamentary group, Boris Bogdanović, said that today "people are being elected who will look the truth in the eye and who will ask what no one has dared to ask for decades."
"Today we are choosing witnesses of an era, a period in which it was known who could speak and who had to remain silent. A period when court decisions were made in political cabinets, and verdicts were carried out on the streets. Today we are choosing people who will ask at committee sessions and other working bodies of the Parliament who are these people whose names have disappeared from official documents, and are forever inscribed on the walls of police stations and secret documents of foreign services," he pointed out.
"Who are these people who believed that witnesses did not exist because they thought they would be silenced forever? Who are these people who sold the state of Montenegro in installments?" Bogdanović added.
He announced that today the Parliament is asking who the people who left fingerprints on the rifle from which the bullet was fired at "Duško Jovanović's head and speech" were.
"Who are the people who decided that only one man would be responsible for his death? Is it possible that one man ordered himself, organized himself, prosecuted himself, condemned himself? Is it possible that one man tinted his car windows himself, stole someone else's license plates himself, installed himself, drove himself, carried two rifles himself, fired 16 bullets himself?" he pointed out.
Bogdanović also recalled the case of the murder of police inspector Slavoljub Šćekić.
Forty-two deputies voted in favor of adopting the decision on the composition of the committee - 42 in favor and four against. The Bosniak Party deputies voted against it, while representatives of the opposition did not attend the session.
Parliament Speaker Andrija Mandić assessed that through the committee they will have the opportunity to speak not only with the victims, but perhaps also with those who participated in the actions themselves.
"Montenegro needs to get the truth. I would also like to call on those who view certain personnel decisions in the Inquiry Committee with suspicion to monitor very closely because we want the truth to come out. The Inquiry Committee is not a courtroom or a prosecutor's office, but it is a powerful tool for those who are tasked with solving these cases - to solve them now," said Mandić, adding that many people have gone through "torment and suffering", and that some of them are in parliament today.
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