Some of those gathered at this morning's event in Podgorica, where they swam for the Holy Cross on the occasion of the church holiday of Epiphany, sang a Chetnik song.
As can be heard on the recording, released by "Pobjeda", the song "Od Topola pa do Ravna Gora" is sung.
The recording can be heard singing the lyrics from that song - "reconnaissance, reconnaissance of Pavle Đurišić, advance guard, advance guard of Duke Đujić".
The statue of the notorious Chetnik commander Pavle Đurišić was erected on August 7th last year in the village of Gornje Zaostro in Berane. A day later, it was unveiled by Metropolitan Metodije of Budimlje-Niksić, and was removed the same day in the afternoon.
The illegal monument was then removed to a church in Gornji Zaostr by locals, according to what they claimed was "a prior agreement with the police." The competent inspection, with the assistance of the police, subsequently demolished the monument's pedestal.
A bronze statue depicting a war criminal from World War II was moved to the monastery's dormitory in mid-August last year. On the first day of October, the police were unable to inspect the monastery's dormitory because only Methodius, who was not listed as the responsible person in the court ruling at the time, had access to those premises, and on November 12, after a two-hour search of the dormitory, the monastery's premises and cemetery, they were again unable to find and temporarily seize the monument.
The Berane Basic Prosecutor's Office opened a new case in early December last year in the case of the Đurišić monument - this time due to the statue's disappearance. The prosecution sought the disputed statue as evidence in the case against Vujadin Dobrašinović from Berane, whom it suspects of illegally erecting the monument.
The unveiling of the monument caused a stormy reaction in the public, especially after the attacks on the teams of "Vijesti" and "Pobjeda", which tried to record the removal of the statue of Đurišić by the residents of Gornji Zaostar.
In 1941, the supreme Chetnik leader Dragoljub Draža Mihailović appointed Đurišić as one of the commanders of the Chetnik forces in Montenegro. In the following months, according to numerous historical sources, Đurišić's intensive collaboration with the Italian and then German occupiers began, during which his Chetniks repeatedly carried out massacres of the civilian population.
In Gornji Zaostr, a pedestal for a monument to Đurišić was erected in 2002, and a memorial complex was erected in 2013. However, both were demolished.
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