Momčilo Đujić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Croatian Serb Chetnik commander
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Place of Birth: Kovačić, Knin, Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia
About Momčilo Đujić
- Momcilo Ðujic (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????o ?????, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [momt?i?lo d?û?jit?]; 27 February 1907 – 11 September 1999) was a Serbian Orthodox priest and Chetnik commander (Serbo-Croatian: vojvoda, ???????) who led a significant proportion of the Chetniks within the northern Dalmatia and western Bosnia regions of the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.
- After the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934, he joined the Chetnik Association of Kosta Pecanac.
- After the invasion of Yugoslavia, he defended local Serbs against the Croatian fascist Ustaše regime and collaborated with the Axis powers against the Communist-led Yugoslav Partisans throughout the remainder of the war as the commander of the Chetnik Dinara Division.
- He survived the war, surrendering to the western Allies and eventually emigrating to the United States.
- He was tried and convicted in absentia for war crimes by the new Yugoslav communist government, including responsibility for organising and carrying out a series of mass murders, massacres, tortures, rapes, robberies, and imprisonments, and collaborating with the Italian and German occupiers.
- Included in these charges was responsibility for the deaths of 1,500 people. Settling in California, Ðujic played an important role in Serbian émigré circles and founded the Ravna Gora Movement of Serbian Chetniks alongside other exiled Chetnik fighters.
- He later retired to San Marcos, where he wrote poems and jokes that were published in both the United States and Serbia.
- He was instrumental in perpetuating Chetnik ideas in the Yugoslav Wars and controversially appointed Vojislav Šešelj as a Chetnik vojvoda in 1989.
- In 1998, Ðujic said that he regretted awarding the title to Šešelj on account of his involvement with Slobodan Miloševic.
- On 21 May 1998, Biljana Plavšic, President of the Republika Srpska at the time, awarded him the Order of the Star of Karadorde (First Class).
- Ðujic died at a hospice in San Diego in 1999, aged 92.
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