The Police Administration (UP) has banned the concert of Mirko Pajčin, better known as Baja Mali Knindža, for which the organizer requested permission to gather on May 21st in Pljevlja, "Vijesti" has learned unofficially from the UP.
"Vijesti" announced on May 15th that the Police Directorate confirmed that they had received an official application to hold a public event - a Pajčina concert, for May 21st in Pljevlja.
The UP officially announced that Pajčin's concert was banned.
The statement states that on May 14, 2026, an application was submitted to the Regional Security Center "West", Pljevlja Security Department, for the holding of a public performance - the Spasovdan concert, with a reported performance by vocal soloist Mirko Pajčin and the orchestra, at the 13th of July Square in Pljevlja, for May 21, 2026, starting at 20 p.m.
The statement added that the application, on behalf of the organizer of the public gathering - the Serbian Cultural Center "Patriarch Varnava", was filed by BJ.
"Acting on the report in question, the Pljevlja Security Department, in accordance with the Law on Public Gatherings and Public Events, has issued a decision not to allow the holding of the aforementioned public event for security reasons. Namely, the security assessments conducted have determined that there is a justified security risk that during the holding of the public gathering in question, public order and peace could be disrupted and the safety of citizens and property could be endangered, criminal offenses could be committed, human rights and freedoms and special minority rights and freedoms of other persons could be threatened, as well as the safety of persons and property could be threatened," the statement states.
The UP said that ultimately, holding this public event would potentially disrupt the civic and multiethnic harmony of Montenegro, which is defined as a civic state by the Constitution of Montenegro.
"The organizer of the public gathering has been informed of the above, and has been served with a decision banning the public event, with the organizer's obligation to act in accordance with the decision," the UP said.
"Vijesti" announced on May 15th that the Municipality of Pljevlja submitted an official request to the Police Department for approval to hold a public gathering - a Pajčina concert on May 21st, on the 20th anniversary of the celebration of Montenegrin Independence Day.
A group of non-governmental organizations and activists announced at the time that they were protesting against the performance and promotion of Baja Mali Knindža, whose songs, they claim, contain nationalistic, chauvinistic and warmongering messages that glorify war crimes and criminals and incite ethnic and religious hatred.
Baja Mali Knindža, or Mirko Pajčin, has been known for his nationalist repertoire since the 1990s, during the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia.
Pajčin gained great popularity in the 1990s by praising Serbianness, and one of his first songs was "Vrati se, vojvodo", in which he sang about the war criminal Momčilo Đujić, commander of the Dinaric Chetnik Division during World War II. Đujić's Chetniks committed numerous crimes, including against Serbs, and after the collapse of the Third Reich, the vojvodo fled to the USA, where he lived for more than four decades and became one of the most influential figures of the Chetnik emigration...
He also popularized at least two other subsequently convicted war criminals - Radovan Karadžić and Vojislav Šešelj...
On the occasion of the Day of the Republika Srpska, Knindža was awarded the Order of Njegoš, First Class, in 2024.
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