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  Chetniks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Serbia itself had lost one quarter of its population in that conflict and the Germans had by 1941 introduced punitive measures against guerrilla activity, 100 Serb civilians were to be executed for every killed soldier of the Wehrmacht and 50 for each wounded.
Mihailovic was being assured by the Allies that an invasion of the Balkans was in the plans and it seems to have been in the works up to 1943, the year of the Conference of Yalta, after which Stalin and Churchill decided to split their influence in Yugoslavia in half.
The last remaining Chetnik, was captured in the Herzegovina-Montenegro border area in 1957.
www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Chetniks   (500 words)

  
 Chetniks
Throughout the World War II, the Chetniks were faced with the two main categories of enemies: the German occupiers and the Ustashe troops that exterminated the ethnic Serbian population on the one side, and the ideologically opposed Partisans and Communists on the other.
As the Ustase committed atrocities in the Serb-populated villages, the Chetniks retaliated in the villages populated by Bosnian Muslims and Croats.
Chetniks fought both the Ustashe and Partisans in these areas, and retaliated for the crimes against Serbs in the villages populated by Bosnian Muslims (who fought on the side of Ustashe) and Croats.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ch/chetniks.html   (1711 words)

  
 Chetniks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chetniks (Serbian četnici, четници) were members of a Serbian nationalist and royalist guerrilla organization named after a 19th century Serbian movement opposing Ottoman rule.
Chetniks originally formed as a result of the Macedonian struggle against the Ottoman Empire.
Vojislav Šešelj, a leader of the Serbian Radical Party, held a rank of voivoda of the Chetniks, given to him in 1989 by Momčilo Đujić, a surviving leader of the WWII Chetniks who fled to the U.S., although he revoked this title in 1998 because Šešelj collaborated with the Serbian Socialist Party of Slobodan Milošević.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chetniks   (379 words)

  
 Draza Mihailovic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The goal Mihailović's Chetniks was the liberation of the from the fascists forces which included the of Nazi Germany Fascist Italy and Ustase (the fascist regime of Croatia).
Chetniks were forced to move to eastern where they engaged in heavy combat with Ustase resulting in several incidents of war crimes against people who supported the other A notable incident happened in Foča where a large group of Bosnian Muslims (est.
The group collaborating with the Italians led by another Chetnik leader pop Momčilo but despite the fact they were a group this reflected upon their commander Mihailović was frowned upon by the Allies particularly Winston Churchill.
www.freeglossary.com /Draza_Mihailovic   (659 words)

  
 :: ak13 :: The new Chetniks
Chetniks were the irregular forces that did most of the dirty work in Yugoslavia.
Those who ran the notorious detention camps at Omarska and Trnopolje were Chetniks, as were the snipers that terrorised Sarajevo and Gorazde and the mortar crews that showered Bihac and Tuzla with death and dismemberment.
It was Chetniks, too, who 'ethnically cleansed' the villages of the Drina Valley and the Krajina region, and destroyed the mosques of Banja Luka and the National Library in Sarajevo.
www.ak13.com /article.php?id=267   (1131 words)

  
 Bosnian war and history chetnik crimes-Bosanska istorija cetnicki zlocini pokolj | COOL WEB-SITE
The Chetniks had nothing to do with this government, and were fighting the German occupation since the beginning, but later shifted all their efforts to fighting Communists and the genocide perpetrating Ustashe, who included both Croats and muslims (who were considered Croats in the NDH).
Chetniks fought both the Ustaše and Partisans in these areas, and retaliated for the crimes against Serbs in the villages populated by Bosniaks (who they saw as ones allied with the Ustashe) and Croats.
The stated goal of the Chetniks was the liberation of the country from the occupying armies including the forces of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Ustase (the fascist regime of the Croatia).
www.freewebs.com /bosnianwarcrimescriminalsgenocidehistorydebatechat   (2673 words)

  
 MOVEMENT OF SERBIAN CHETNIKS RAVNE GORE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The commander of the Dinara Chetnik Division was Duke Momcilo R. Djujic (born in the village of Topolje near Knin in 1907- died in San Marcos, California in 1999), a famed leader and later one of the bravest Serbian commanders under the authority of General Mihailovic.
Chetnik fighters showed unprecedented courage during four years of struggle for the protection of Serbian people from vicious attacks of the monstrous Croatian Nazi formations.
Heroic Dinara Chetnik Division was made up of the heroic fighters whose ancestors have, for centuries, been living at the crossroad of the east and the west, and fought against the occupiers coming from both directions.
www.ravnagorachetniks.org /istorija_e_2.asp   (1757 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The mosque in Bratunac used as dormitory by Chetniks was destroyed.
The mosque in Gracanica near Doboj was destroyed in attacks by the Chetniks from Ozren on this town.
During Ramadan, before the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chetniks fired several shells at the mosque while the people were performing their prayers there.
odin.let.rug.nl /CB/bosnia/destroyed-1   (5606 words)

  
 Expulsions of Albanians and Colonisation of Kosova: Chapter Three
Chetniks committed unprecedented massacres at Albanian villages bordering on Kosova and Sanjac, and due to this the population was forced to emigrate in mass from Kosova and elsewhere.
Chetniks and other Serbian collaborators made their endeavours to accomplish the plans and intentions for greater Serbia and its hegemony, from Salonika to Arad and from Tirana to Split, also in 1943.
Based on the chauvinist and extermination position of chetniks, as well as on the action of many leaders and units of YNLA towards the Albanian population, the crimes and massacres in Kosova and other regions of ethnic Albanians were enormous.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /Kosovo/chap3.htm   (5966 words)

  
 History of Bosnia and Herzegovina - HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
The main enemies are, except German and Italian units, military formations of NDH and the Chetniks of Draza Mihailovic.
In the case of the Serb population, his task was made "easier" by massacres inflicted by groups of Greater Serbian royalists (Chetniks) on the Croatian population in the lawlessness interregnum during the days of the creation of NDH.
While the armed forces of NDH consisted exclusively of Croats and Bosnian Muslims, and Chetnik forces of Serbs, Tito's Communist Army was multiethnic, being a conglomerate of various nations.
www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/ww2.html   (1709 words)

  
 Balkan history facts politics forum debate chat
Through force and terror, the Chetnik organization, together with the army and the police represented a means of getting even with their political rivals and preserving the centralist, Greater Serbian political system headed by the King.
For this reason, by the beginning of the war in 1941, some 300 Chetnik and similar organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and about 200 in Croatia were established which were recognized for their terror and barbarity along with the murders of a great number of Croatians and Bosniaks.
Chetniks emphasized that the twelve-day war, their military defeat, as well as the occupation and breaking of Yugoslavia by the fascist states had lost the Serbians their "state and freedom" (since they considered the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to be merely an extended version of Greater Serbia and often acted as if it was).
www.webspawner.com /users/shmajser   (1767 words)

  
 SFOR - History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Two opposition forces were born in response to the Ustasha violence: the Chetniks and the Partisans.
However, the atrocities committed by the Ustasha and the Chetniks were too terrible to be easily forgotten.
Under Tito, discussion of the atrocities of the war was prohibited in an attempt to forget the past and keep the lid on potential boiling emotions.
www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/121/p03a/chapter5.htm   (784 words)

  
 The Chetniks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Throughout World War II, the Chetniks were faced with the two main categories of enemies: the German occupiers and the Ustaše on the one side the ideologically opposed Communist Partisans on the other.
A Chetnik ideologue Stevan Moljevic composed a memorandum called "Homogenous Serbia" that outlined a plan to solve Serbian problems by expanding the Serbian territory to all the lands where ethnic Serbs live, and subsequently remove its heterogeneous ethnic composition, revising the idea of Greater Serbia.
Chetniks fought both the Ustaše and Partisans in these areas, and retaliated for the crimes against Serbs in the villages populated by Bosnian Muslims (who they saw as ones allied with the Ustashe) and Croats.
koz.vianet.ca /jack5.htm   (2674 words)

  
 Chetniks rehabilitated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Chetniks are now entitled to the same pension and as Partisans under the new Veterans’ Rights Act.
The Chetnik movement was initiated in response to German occupation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from the remnants of the Yugoslav Royal Army, with Col. Dragolyub (Drazha) Mihailovich as its head.
The Chetniks were made up mostly of Serbs, for a couple of reasons: (1) many of them were Serb nationalists disillusioned or always opposed to any union with Croats and Slovenes and (2) the other nationalities either welcomed the Nazis with open arms and flowers (i.e.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1307189/posts   (3137 words)

  
 Research and Documentation Center Sarajevo - Statements   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Z. and the other Chetnik were on the other bed which was on the other side of the room, but I did not look her being raped as I was shocked and too much occupied with my own situation.
Because these Chetniks wouldn't let us go back to the room we they brought us from, the two of us stayed with these Chetniks, lying in beds, me in mine and Z. in hers, that were allotted to us by the Chetniks.
These Chetniks remained there, lying next to me and Z. Sometime before the break of dawn, the Chetnik who was in bed with me, raped me again in almost the same way as the first time.
www.idc.org.ba /statements/3653.html   (645 words)

  
 Brian Laverdue
The creation of the Chetniks and the Partisans served to pique the interest of the Allied Powers, particularly Britain, because the Allies primarily viewed the rebel groups as a means to harass the Germans and keep precious Axis resources and soldiers from other European battlefields.
Unfortunately for the Chetniks, Hudson’s confusion over his duties, his overzealous initiative, and his subsequent admonition for Mihailović’s failure to carry out missions that were against SOE policy resulted in two significant consequences: the British started to view Mihailović as an ineffective leader and some Chetniks turned to the Italians and Croatians for supplies.
Chetniks: Originally a term used to denote insurgents during the Ottoman reign, a new band of Chetniks under the leadership of Gen. Mihailović emerged from the remnants of the Yugoslav Army after the Nazi invasion of April 1941.
toto.lib.unca.edu /sr_papers/srhistory_2005/laverdue_brian.htm   (9254 words)

  
 Modern History Sourcebook: Arthur D. Howden-Smith: An Attack on the Bashi-Bazouks, Macedonia 1907
The chetniks crowded up to the knot of chiefs and craned over their shoulders like children, eager to hear what was being discussed.
The chetniks arranged their knapsacks under their heads, wrapped themselves in their cloaks, taking care to protect the breeches of their rides from the moisture, and dozed off.
The chetniks leaned sternly on their rifles, watching the conflagration take its course, and the villagers, by this time certain of the identity of the marauders, stole from their homes to look also on the destruction of their oppressors.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1907bashi.html   (3980 words)

  
 Serb Pension Law Rehabilitates WW2 Chetniks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The original Chetniks were Serb guerrillas who fought in the Balkan Wars and the First World War.
The partisans emerged victorious and executed Mihailovic as a traitor, consigning the Chetnik movement to history as bloodthirsty Nazi collaborators.
In the 1990s, when Yugoslavia broke up in bloody conflict, Serb paramilitary units in Bosnia and Croatia hijacked the Chetnik name and some of their insignia as symbols of Serb pride.
www.globalaging.org /pension/world/2004/serb.htm   (423 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Serbia rehabilitates Chetniks with pensions
Bosnian born Chetnik commander Draza Mihajlovic revived the paramilitary units and their trademark long beards to fight the Nazis in World War II, but later changed sides to back the brutal Nazi occupation.
The Chetniks’ primary enemies were the partizans, led by Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia’s communist leader until his death in the early 1980s.
After partizans won the war in 1945, the Chetnik movement was declared criminal.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=10424   (586 words)

  
 Net Polluters: Alex Seredin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Chetniks are a vomit of the Serbian nation.
Serbian nation is not of the chetnik persuasion, nor, vice versa.
Chetniks are fascist movement based upon the theory that the Serbs are superior beings to all others, just like the garbage Hitler tried to peddle.
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosta/polluters/xfiles/seredin.1.html   (401 words)

  
 Mario's Cyberspace Station: U.S. Awarded Nazi Collaborator Draza Mihailovich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Those were the words of the song Serb Chetniks were singing, marching under the fl flag with a big white skull on it, through destroyed Croatian town Vukovar in autumn of 1991, a scene taken by BBC reporter.
At the initial stage, there were some Jews among the Chetniks, but when it turned out that the Chetniks were not fighting the invaders and their collaborators, and in fact were inclined to cooperate with them, the Jews switched to the ranks of the partisans.
This OSS officer, who had just left the Chetniks and had taken forty Allied airmen with him knew this to be false; but he found himself a weak minority against the all-out support being given Tito and his charges against the Chetniks.
mprofaca.cro.net /draza_mihajlovic.html   (3126 words)

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