Knežević: The government stabbed the Serbian people in the back by sending representatives to mark Operation Storm

The leader of the Democratic People's Party (DNP), Milan Knežević, accused the Government of Montenegro of stabbing the Serbian people in the back with the decision to send a representative to mark the anniversary of Operation Storm in Croatia, saying that their place was in Mrkonjić Grad, where a commemoration for the Serbs killed in that operation is being held.

Addressing those present at the commemoration, which was also attended by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and former Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik, Knežević said that he would have been most proud if, in addition to the flags of Serbia and Republika Srpska, the Montenegrin banner or cross-flag had been present at the gathering, but that "official and nationalized Montenegro" has decided to take its banner to Zagreb tomorrow, reports the Adria TV portal.

"And so they once again stab a knife into the brotherly heart and brotherly back, both of the Serbian people in the Republic of Serbia and the Republika Srpska. We, as Serbs from Montenegro, cannot reconcile ourselves to these high treasons committed by various governments in the 21st century. They have betrayed our common history, common memory and common spirituality so much that it is enough for all our dead, for all the living and for all those Serbs who will be born in Montenegro. In 2008, they recognized the heart of Serbia, our holy land of Kosovo and Metohija. They have declared us a genocidal people four times. Each time, they voted in international institutions to take away Visoki Dečani and the Peć Patriarchate and the Prizren Seminary, to take away the relics of our saints and give them to Albin Kurti whenever someone ordered from Brussels," said Knežević.

The DNP leader said that Serbs from Montenegro had gathered in Mrkonjić Grad, representing, as he assessed, "the original Njegoš Montenegro of Saint Sava, Marko Miljanov, soldiers and warriors."

"Tomorrow, there will be representatives of that Montenegro that personifies Sekula Drljević, Savić Marković Štedimlija, the Endejasian crimes and the Red Croatia project, which has not been given up on in Montenegro even today and which has not been given up by certain officials and employees of the degenerate, high-treasonous Government of Milojko Spajić," said Knežević.

Saying that he is not a saint who would say: "Forgive them, God, for they know not what they do," the DNP leader emphasized that representatives of the authorities in Montenegro know very well what they are doing.

"They listen to Thompson's songs over the columns of 250.000 Serbs expelled from Krajina, they dance on the charred remains of 20.000 burned Serbian houses, and they dance on the graves of the nameless and grassy for the 2.000 Serbs they are still looking for today," he said.

At the end, he had a message for anyone who, as he said, "wants to stab themselves in the back."

"As the smallest Serb in Montenegro, as a man who does not have the exclusive right to represent all Serbs in Montenegro, I want to send a clear message: 33 percent of Serbs live in Montenegro and whoever wants to be at peace with Serbia and Republika Srpska will be at peace with 33 percent of Serbs, and whoever wants to stab them in the back will encounter resistance," said the DNP leader, concluding that for Serbs in Montenegro "Brussels will never be closer than Belgrade and Banja Luka."

Milan Knežević and his party left the government at the beginning of the year, dissatisfied with its attitude towards Serb identity issues and the construction of a collector in Botun.

Chargé d'Affaires at the Embassy of Montenegro in Croatia, Jelena Ražnatović, participated in last year's military parade in Zagreb on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Operation Storm, at a time when Knežević's DNP was still in the government.

Knežević did not comment on the matter at the time.