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These included the beating up of a Muslim, Muhamed
Hrastovina, in a local cafe two days before, and several
instances of disorderly behavior, resisting police officers
in the performance of their duty, endangering the
public with gunfire. Hearing that Dačević was being
detained, people started gathering outside the Police
Department, chanting slogans in his support. By the
evening, the crowd was 500-strong and barricades
manned by uniformed men had been erected around
the town. About 20 wounded in the Pljevlja hospital
stopped taking food and medication in protest against
Dačević’s detention.
Dačević was released around midnight. Addressing the
cheering crowd amid the sound of celebratory gunfire,
he said: ”If they hadn’t let me go, there would have been
war in the Sandžak.“ 31
The next day, Montenegro’s Minister of Internal Affairs
Nikola Pejaković came to Pljevlja to call to account the
police officers who had released Dačević and failed to disperse
the Radical crowd. Some officers were given three
days to choose a place in Montenegro to where they wanted
to be reassigned or be dismissed. This measure was
announced somewhat earlier by Montenegrin Premier
Milo Djukanović to deal with the problem of unprofessional
police in other cities. Djukanović said then that
robust measures would be implemented since there were
indications that the orders of the High Defense Council
were not being carried out. 32 President Bulatović arrived
in Pljevlja for the second time in ten days to discuss the
unrest and measures that had to be taken with representatives
of political parties and the police authorities.
31 ”How Čeko Occupied Pljevlja,“ Politika, Belgrade, 30 December
1994.
32 ”The State Guarantees Security,“ Pobjeda, Podgorica, 8 August 1992.
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