The Higher State Prosecutor's Office (VDT) launched an investigation after human remains were found in the Mandića cave in Sinjajevina a few days ago, "Vijesti" learns.
The information that human remains were found in the Mandića cave was also confirmed by the Police Directorate.
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", it is suspected that the bones and personal items found belong to the Chetniks, who were allegedly liquidated by the order of former general Udba and retired general Jov Kapičić in February 1947.
For years, the descendants of the Chetniks who died in the Mandića cave claimed that Kapičić was responsible for their deaths
"Vijesti" has learned that Kolasin police inspector Radovan Šćepanović was with the speleologists in the cave.
The announcement adds that the Directorate for Emergency Situations (DVS) of the MUP was informed about the discovery of explosive devices.
"When the DVS team went to the scene, with the intention of destroying explosive devices, they also discovered human remains. The OB Kolašin was informed about this, which informed the senior state prosecutor in Bijelo Polje and the basic state prosecutor in Kolašin about everything," she announced. is the Police Directorate.
"Further activities follow the order of the prosecutor, including conducting interviews with the descendants of persons whose remains are suspected to be in the cave," said the police.
Miljan Mandic in the middle
According to unofficial information, the bones will soon be exhumed, which will then be sent to the Forensic Center in Danilovgrad, where DNA tests will be performed.
For years, the descendants of the Chetniks who died in the Mandića cave claimed that Kapičić was responsible for their deaths.
In February 1947, the judge of the pre-war military court, and during the war the commander of the Chetnik movement, Miljan Mandić, Miladin Knežević, the brothers Janko, Dragutin and Milivoje Ilinčić and Milivoje's daughter Mioljka were killed.
Miljan Mandić, the uncle of the father of the MP and one of the opposition leaders, Andrija Mandić, allegedly hid in the territory of Kolašin with several other comrades after the end of the war.
Ozna discovered their shelter at the beginning of 1947. Members of Ozna, at the beginning of February 1947, as recorded by the chroniclers, accidentally discovered their hiding place in a cave, and a five-day siege began in which five soldiers died.
The then Minister of Police, Jovo Kapićić, as he described in his book "Bare Islands", ordered that the group which included, in addition to Mandić, Knežević, Milorad Vuković, the brothers Janko, Dragutin and Milivoje Ilinčić and Milivoje's daughter Mioljka, be liquidated by will descend into the cave and activate 300 kilograms of explosives.
Jovo Kapicic
The detonation, which followed, is said to have been heard tens of kilometers around in the Kolasin region, and boulders fell several hundred meters from the cave.
Of the entire group, only Milorad Vuković survived, and according to some claims, he got out of the cave after almost a month and a half. Later he was also killed.
According to speleologists and other residents of Kolasin, who entered the Mandića cave in past years, the main entrance is almost completely buried. Through the strait, however, one can enter the interior, which is mostly covered with large stones.
In the cave, there are several "side" areas that have not been sufficiently explored.
According to what Mira Mandić, the daughter of Miljanov, a retired teacher, previously told the media, the descendants of the Chetnik duke filed a criminal complaint against Kapičić with the Serbian Prosecutor's Office.
This summer, a group of speleologists, among whom there were foreigners, came across several pieces of bombs, as well as the remains of dried meat in one of the caves of the cave. According to one of them, who did not want his name to be mentioned, the Kolasin police were immediately informed about it, and they made a report.
"There are several parts of the cave that can hardly be reached through narrow passages. In one of them we found several pieces of bombs and the remains of bacon. You can also see traces of people's long stay, the place where the fire was lit and the hooks on which the meat stood. We immediately reported it and contacted the Mandić family, and it was up to them to initiate further research into that cave. For me, it's a cave like any other, but I really wouldn't talk about what we saw there in more detail after the police took it into their own hands," said the speleologist.
According to what Mira Mandić, Miljan's daughter, a retired teacher, previously told the media, the descendants of the Chetnik duke filed a criminal complaint against Kapičić at the Serbian Prosecutor's Office.
In a conversation with journalists at the time, she described her memories of the days when her father was hiding in the cave.
As she said then, in order to persuade those who were hiding to surrender, their family members were also brought to the cave.
"They even brought my seventy-year-old grandmother, my seven-month-pregnant mother, my two-year-old sister Milanka, and me. I was only four years old at the time," Mandić said earlier.
Andrija Mandić: The grave crime of Kapičić
MP and one of the opposition leaders, Andrija Mandić, said that the death of family members Mandić, Knežević and Linčić was a serious crime committed by Jov Kapičić.
"Miljan's daughter Mira Mandić filed a criminal complaint against Jov Kapičić for the war crime in Sinjajevina a few years ago, but the prosecutor's office in Serbia did nothing about it. It is a serious crime. There are enough witnesses and statements of people who witnessed that the event. The material evidence that six people were killed were buried in a cave on Sinjajevina, after a large explosion caused by the order of Jov Kapičić," said Mandić.
He added that the place where the mentioned people died is no longer a cave for speleologists to enter, but a tomb.
"The bodies of the victims should be treated in a careful manner. No actions should be taken there without representatives of the Mandić, Knežević and Ilinčić families. We have repeatedly proposed resolutions to the Assembly of Montenegro to condemn communist crimes after the Second World War, that time of totalitarianism it should be condemned, that we should face our own past. That's all that awaits us on the road to the European Union," concluded Mandić.
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