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Vojislav Šešelj apprized the public of his version of the
Pljevlja events: ”The Montenegrin regime is trying to
confuse the issue, that is, attempting to draw the people’s
attention away from its treachery by inciting disorder
and incidents.“ 44 He said the purpose of the measures
taken by the Prosecutor’s Office and police was to
effect Montenegro’s secession from Yugoslavia and
provoke a conflict between the local population and JA
troops in Pljevlja. In June 1993, the Montenegrin State
Prosecutor, Vladimir Šušović, said all the acts of violence
perpetrated around the republic and, in particular,
in Pljevlja, Nikšić and Bijelo Polje, were attempts by
certain groups to destabilize the situation in Montenegro
and make people doubt the legal order and functioning
of the state. Noting that all those accused of the
criminal offenses in Pljevlja were Radicals and none of
them denied committing them, he openly accused the
SRS of destabilizing Montenegro, and said it was ludicrous
that Dačević, the organizer of the violence, was a
deputy to the Federal Parliament and served on the
Defense and Security Committee of the Chamber of Citizens.
Perceiving that Dačević was doing the SRS more harm
than good, Šešelj in late June 1993 declared that he was
no long a deputy since he had broken party discipline.
Later on, when a split occurred in the Montenegrin
chapter of the SRS in which Dačević played a part, Šešelj
announced that Dačević had been expelled from the
party: ”When they arrested him, we put him on our list
of candidates for deputies and he was elected. I went to
Bijelo Polje for the sentencing. The judge was one hour
late because of the consultations he was having. They
gave Čeko only one year though they had prepared a
44 Ibid.