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Revision as of 22:06, 31 January 2011
Chetniks of Kosta Pećanac | |
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Active | 1941-1943 |
Country | Serbia |
Commanders | |
Colonel of the Regiment | Kosta Pećanac |
The Chetniks of Kosta Pećanac, also known as the "Black" Chetniks[1] were a Chetnik force which operated in Nedić's Serbia. They were loyal to the fascist government and fought against Yugoslav Partisans.
At the time of the invasion of Yugoslavia, Pećanac was located in southern Serbia. He was, before World War II and along with his rival Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin, one of the most well-known leaders of the various organizations that called themselves Chetniks, years before Draža Mihailović and his Ravna Gora movement began to use the name[2][3]. Pećanac's Chetniks, which were already in existence before World War II, were an entirely different organization than Mihailović's, even though they could occasionnally be confused. Pećanac soon established relations with the Gestapo and also received the blessing of Serbian Orthodox vladika Nikolaj Velimirović.[4]
During the World War II units of Kosta Milovanović Pećanac committed numerous crimes against the civil population of Albanian villages on the border between Kosovo and Sandzak.[5][6][7]
Pećanac eventually came into conflict with Mihailović's "Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland". Pećanac proved to be the loser in this conflict and by March, 1943, the Germans disbanded his force.[3]
References
- ^ Stevan K.Pavlowitch, Hitler's new disorder : the Second World War in Yugoslavia, Columbia University Press, New York, 2007, page 59
- ^ Stevan K.Pavlowitch, Hitler's new disorder : the Second World War in Yugoslavia, Columbia University Press, New York, 2007, page 52
- ^ a b Chetniks of Kosta Milovanović-Pećanac (Pechanatz)
- ^ Genessis of the Chetnik Greater Serbian Idea
- ^ Arhiv Kosova, Arhiv Pokrajinskog komiteta KPJ za Kosovo i Metohiju u Prištini, card no. 5, reg. no. 220
- ^ Zbornik dokumenata i podataka o NOR-u i revoluciji, I&19, dok. br. 3
- ^ Pavle Jovićević, Kosovo i Metohija i odluke II zasedanja AVNOJ-a, Sloboda, novembar, 1944.