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==Quotes== ==Quotes==

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Chetnik commander Pavle Đurišić

Pavle Đurišić (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Ђуришић; July 9, 1907 - April 21, 1945) was a Chetnik commander and voivoda. He was a Serbian Chetnik fighting communist and Nazi forces during WWII. He Helped save American Airmen shot down during WWII as chronicled in the '"Forgotten 500"' Novel.

Career

Pavle Đurišić lead most of the Chetniks of Montenegro during World War II. He was unique among many Chetnik commanders in which he strayed a different way from some military policies of Draža Mihailović (although according to the quotes below he still did commit attrocities while excecuting Mihailović's Instrukcije. See Draža Mihailović article for information about Instrukcije.); while Mihailović's Chetniks had been known as collaborating forces to the Nazis and other Fascist/Axis forces occupying the Balkans at the time, Đurišić made a move in which his Chetniks in Montenegro grouped up and attacked the Ustaša fascists in Lijevce Polje near Banja Luka purposely for trying to gain recognition for the Chetniks as an anti-fascist force as to contrast of the beliefs of Western leaders (many Western leaders chose to financially support Yugoslav Partisans lead by Josip Broz Tito at the famous Tehran Conference). This battle became to be known as The Battle on Lijevća Field.

Quotes

On 1 January 1943, reporting to his superior Draža Mihailović that in Plevlje in Sandžak nad in Čajnice and Foča in eastern Bosnia his Chetniks had carried out operations against the Muslims there:

The operations were executed exactly according to orders...All the commanders and units carried out their task satisfactorily... All Moslem villages in the three above mentioned districts are entirely burnt, so that not one of their houses has remained undamaged. All property has been destroyed except cattle, corn and hay. In certain places the collection of fodder and food has been ordered so that we can set up warehouses for reserve food for the units which have remained on the terrain in order to purge it and to search the wooded areas as well as establish and strengthen the organization of the liberated territory.

References

  1. Judah, Tim (1997). The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
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