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Bukovica
Spotlight Report No. 4
May 1993
MUSLIM-SLAVS
IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
PLJEVLJA, MONTENEGRO
Tensions reached a high pitch in Pljevlja last year as a
result of increasingly frequent attacks on shops owned by
local Muslim-Slavs and the road blocks repeatedly raised
by irregulars under the command of Chetnik Vojvoda 1
Milika “Čeko“ Dačevic. Dačevic and members of his paramilitary
group, ”Čeko’s Men“, were arrested and charged
with terrorism. Although convicted, Dačević received a
suspended sentence. The easing of tensions following the
trial is perceived locally more as a result of Dačević’s subsequent
election to the Assembly of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia and his departure for Belgrade and less to
more effective law enforcement.
Persons interviewed in Pljevlja by Humanitarian Law
Center researchers blame ”Čeko’s Men“ for the latest
incidents of harassment and violence against members
of Pljevlja’s Muslim-Slav community. They report it was
several of these men who on March 27, 1993 burst into
the local restaurant Stari Djeram, demanded at gun
point that the Muslim-Slav proprietor immediately
remove a picture of Tito, and ordered him to close the
restaurant within the next few days since they planned
to convert it into an Orthodox church.
On April 22, S.G., a Muslim-Slav, was beaten up while
riding to work to the Borovica mines. His attacker was
1 A military commander in Serbian tradition