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much harsher sentence. We arranged for him to be allocated
an apartment in Belgrade as a combatant with
merit but Čeko thought he could be a brigand in Serbia
and Montenegro. Well, he can’t!“ 45 When he belatedly
became aware that Dačević was involved in ”criminal
and police affairs,“ Šešelj also stripped his protege of
the title of Chetnik vojvoda.
Reviewing the case, the Montenegrin Supreme Court
on 21 June 1994 set aside the lower court ruling and
sentenced Dačević to two years’ imprisonment. Dačević
was subsequently among 82 convicts who were pardoned
by President Bulatović. He was in prison from 1
April 1996 to early 1998.
4. Propaganda Against Montenegrin
Muslims
Dačević, the Radicals and the Chetniks cannot, however,
be blamed for everything that happened in Pljevlja
municipality. There were other contributing factors: villages
along the Bosnian border were full of Bosnian
Serb troops and paramilitaries, the JA began enlisting
soldiers but only Serbs and Montenegrins, and massing
troops in the area. All this made the local Muslim population
apprehensive. JA troops would come to Muslim
villages and search the houses for weapons, accusing
the villagers of aiding the Green Berets and saying that
their young men were in large number joining the
Bosnian Muslim army. Speaking of incidents against
Montenegrin Muslims in border villages, Minister of
Internal Affairs Nikola Pejaković laid some of the blame
on them: ”We have information that a certain number of
45 ”Šešelj: First Steps in Resolving Bosnian Crisis,“ Politika, Belgrade,
23 June 1993.
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