President: Comrade ensign, order the accused to be brought in. (At 8,15:XNUMX a.m., the defendants enter the auditorium, filled with holes, noticeably excited. They go in order, as they came to the trial every day, with Dragoljub-Dražo Mihailović at the head. Although he has a full beard, Draža's anxiety is noticeable. They sat down on the defendant's bench the bench.) The verdict will be pronounced today. (There is a murmur among those present in the audience.) I am asking the audience for peace, otherwise I will be forced to order to leave the hall anyone who shows any signs of their mood. (Then the president and everyone else in the hall, as well as the accused, stand up and, in complete silence, the president reads the verdict.)
IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE
The Supreme Court of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia Military Council composed of Colonel Mihail Đorđević as chairman and judges Lt. Col. Milija Laković and Mihail Janković, and Lieutenant Todor Popadić as secretary, in the criminal case against the accused Dragoljub-Draža Mihailović and others. for criminal offenses from the Law on Criminal Offenses Against the People and the State and the Law on the Prohibition of Inciting National, Racial and Religious Hatred and Discord based on the indictment of the Military Prosecutor of the Yugoslav Army dated May 31, 1946, number 711/46. and Decisions of this court from June 1, 1946, held the main public oral hearing in Belgrade from June 10 to July 11, 1946, at which the indictment was represented by the representative of the Military Prosecutor of the Yugoslav Army, Colonel Miloš Minić, in the presence the accused Dragoljub Draža Mihailović, who is defended by Nikola Đonović and Dragić Joksimović, both lawyers from Belgrade; the accused Stevan Moljević, who is defended by Rajko Atanacković, a lawyer from Belgrade, the accused Đura Vilović, who is defended by Dr. Milan Omčikus, a lawyer from Belgrade; the accused Radoslav Rad Radić, who is defended by Lazar Vučetić, a lawyer from Belgrade; the accused Slavoljub Vranješević and the accused Miloš Glišić, who are defended by Blaža Radović, a lawyer from Belgrade; the accused Dragomir Drago Jovanović and the accused Kosta Kumanudi, who are defended by Savko Dukanac, a lawyer from Belgrade; the accused Tanasija-Tasa Dinić, who is defended by Dr. Dragoljub Jovanović, a lawyer from Belgrade; the accused Kosta Mušicki, who is defended by Đorđe Ćirić, a lawyer from Belgrade; the accused Boško Pavlović, who is defended by Slobodan Subotić, a lawyer from Belgrade, the accused Lazar-Laza Marković, who is defended by Aleksandar Nikolić, a lawyer from Belgrade, and in the absence of the accused Mladen Žujović and the accused Živko Topalović, who are defended by Ljubomir Radovanović, a lawyer from Belgrade; the accused Slobodan Jovanović, who is defended by Miloš Terzić, a lawyer from Belgrade; accused Božidar Purić and accused Petar Živković, defended by Pavle Miljaković, a lawyer from Belgrade; accused Momčilo Ninčić, who is defended by David Alkalaj, a lawyer from Belgrade; the accused Radoje Knežević and the accused Milan Gavrilović, who are defended by Slobodan Subotić, a lawyer from Belgrade; accused Živan Knežević and accused Konstantin Fotić, defended by Dragutin Tasić, a lawyer from Belgrade, so according to the final word of the representative of the Military Prosecutor of the Yugoslav Army that he sticks to the indictment and demands a strict and fair punishment for the accused and the closing statements of the defense attorneys of all the accused and the last words of the present accused each individually to be released or to be punished as mildly as possible, he made and publicly pronounced on July 15, 1946, the following year
JUDGMENT
1) Mihailović Dragoljub-Draža,
2) Dr. Moljevic Stevan,
3) Žujović Mladen,
4) Dr. Topalović Živko,
5) Vilović Đura,
6) Radić Radoslav-Rade,
7) Vranješević Slavoljub,
8) Glisic Milos,
9) Jovanovic Slobodan,
10) Dr. Purić. Božidar,
11) Dr. Ninčić Momčilo,
12) Zivkovic Petar,
13) Knezevic Radoje,
14) Dr. Gavrilović Milan,
15) Knezevic Zivan,
16) Fotić Konstantin,
17) Jovanović Dragomir-Dragi,
18) Dinić Tanasije-Tasa,
19) Jonic Velibor,
20) Dokic Djura,
21) Musicki Kosta,
22) Pavlovic Bosko,
23) Dr. Marković Lazar-Laza,
24) Dr. Kumanudi Costa
THEY ARE GUILTY:
that in the course of the superhuman struggle that the peoples of Yugoslavia waged from 1941 to 1945 in defense of their freedom and independence, and for their survival, against Hitler's Germany, fascist Italy and their satellites, they entered and maintained political and military cooperation with the occupier in order to jointly suppress the popular uprising and support the occupation in order to establish a regime against the people's dictatorship with the help of the occupier. of national oppression, and in this way, in the most fateful period of the history of the people of Yugoslavia, they committed the crime of treason against the people and the fatherland; that, together with the occupier, in carrying out the occupier's imperialist plan to enslave and exterminate the people of Yugoslavia, they organized, ordered and carried out or instigated the execution of countless crimes against the people: killing and handing over the wounded to the occupier, mass murders and massacres, arrests, torture, deportation to concentration camps and forced labor for the benefit of the occupier, forced mobilization, arson, looting and destruction of public and private property, rape and other war crimes, as a result of which they are responsible for the death and suffering of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children. And that:
Accused MIHAILOVIĆ DRAGOLjUB-DRAŽA:
1. Who, from the beginning of the second half of 1941 and throughout the war and enemy occupation, organized and managed the armed Chetnik formations known as the "Chetniks of Draža Mihailović" and the so-called "Yugoslav army in the fatherland", whose aim was to use armed action and by carrying out terror in cooperation with the occupier, they support the occupation and suppress the armed uprising and the liberation struggle of the Serbian and other peoples of Yugoslavia;
2. That in order to stifle the national liberation struggle of the people of Yugoslavia and to support the occupation, from the very beginning of his anti-national activity, he entered into a relationship with the occupying commands (and authorities); carried out active political and military cooperation with all occupiers throughout the war, until the very capitulation of Hitler's Germany; I negotiated, or through subordinate commanders and agents, agreements and contracts for conducting a joint fight against my homeland, received weapons, equipment, food and other assistance from the occupiers for my Chetnik units; placed his units under the command of the occupier to carry out war operations against the People's Liberation Army; approved his commanders to "legalize" their detachments with the occupiers, that is, enter the open service of the occupiers, and some Chetnik units to come under the direct command of the occupiers under the name "anti-communist volunteer militia", so that all his subordinate commanders and units are under his directives and orders for the entire duration of the war together with the fascist occupation units, carried out military operations against the people's armed forces and committed crimes and terror over the people.
3. That from the very beginning of his treasonous activity he entered into a relationship with Nedić and other Quislings, open servants of the occupier, in order to maintain the occupation and unite all treasonous forces against the liberation struggle of the people of Yugoslavia; gave directives to his commanders to conclude agreements and to cooperate with the Ustasha with the recognition of the sovereignty of the so-called "independent state of Croatia" and with the swearing of loyalty to Pavelic, the organizer of mass slaughters of the Serbian and Croatian people;
4. For the same purpose, accepting the false slogan of the fight against communism from the occupier, he sought to divert the struggle of our people from the path of the national liberation struggle to the path of civil war, so under the slogan of the fight against communism, he and his Chetniks killed patriots, who how they helped and approved the fight against the occupiers;
5. What, under the false slogans of "protecting Serbia" and "saving Serbian heads", with which the quisling Nedic justified the occupation, broke the unity of the Serbian people in the fight against the occupiers and imposed a fratricidal struggle on them, in which his Chetniks killed tens of thousands of Serbs ;
6. That, in accordance with the policy of the occupier, as a representative of all anti-national and anti-democratic elements with the aim of breaking the brotherhood and unity of the people of Yugoslavia and establishing national oppression, he incited national and religious hatred and discord among the peoples of Yugoslavia, as a result of which his Chetnik gangs committed mass the slaughter of the Croatian, Muslim and Serbian population that did not accept the occupation;
7. That, together with the refugee government in which he was a minister, he carried out propaganda among the people, that it was not time to fight against the occupiers, until stronger allied forces landed in the Balkans, that is, until Germany was on the verge of capitulation, by which he supported the occupation and weakened Yugoslavia's war effort, as well as the common front of the allied states against Hitler's Germany and its satellites; and
8. That, consistent with his treacherous activity, carried out throughout the war and occupation, before the final liberation of the country from the occupiers, after he was politically and militarily defeated, he organized terrorist gangs and groups as his only remaining means, with the help of the Gestapo he organized schools for terrorists, so he instructed trained and armed terrorists to carry out diversions, sabotage and assassinations, which these groups did, and he ordered some of his commanders to also switch to committing terrorist acts, in order to help the occupier who was withdrawing from our country even in the last phase of the struggle, and to threaten the new constitutional democratic order in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia.
So it is:
a) in August 1941, although he had agreed with the representatives of the Valjevo Partisan Detachment that the Chetniks and Partisans would not attack each other, a platoon of the Valjevo Partisan Detachment in the village of Planinica (not far from Mionica) was brutally and suddenly attacked, in which the accused Mihailović personally commanded the Chetniks. , who on that occasion killed two partisans, wounded several and captured several;
b) at the time when the uprising broke out in Serbia and when the insurgents began to liberate the cities, he established a relationship with the traitor Milan Nedić and, at his invitation, sent his delegation to Belgrade headed by Major Aleksandar Mišić with the authority to conclude an agreement with Nedić on a joint struggle for suppression of the popular uprising in Serbia. The delegation of the accused Mihailović, after negotiations, which lasted from August 29 to September 5, 1941, concluded an agreement with Nedić: that Nedić, that is, Nedić's government and the accused Mihailović cooperate in the fight against the partisans with the aim of their destruction; that Nedic immediately provide financial aid to the accused Mihailović's organization; that Nedic appoint immediately a liaison officer who will be permanently attached to the headquarters of the accused Mihailović; that Nedic persuades the Germans not to prosecute the accused Mihailović and his Chetniks; and that after the formation of Nedić's armed detachments, they will carry out a joint operational plan for cleansing Serbia of partisans. According to this agreement, the delegation of the accused Mihailović received financial aid from Nedić, and Mihailović's liaison officer with Nedić, Pipan, in mid-September 1941, took with him to the headquarters of the accused Mihailović, the assistant commander of Nedić's gendarmerie, lieutenant colonel Marko Olujević, who was assigned by Nedić to liaison officer at the headquarters of the accused Mihailović and carried with him Nedic's operational plan for the joint cleansing of partisans from Serbia. Nedić also managed through the German command of General Dunkelman that the Germans did not persecute the accused Chetniks Mihailović;
c) making preparations for a general attack on the partisans, the accused Mihailović:
received under his command a large number of dukes of Kosta Pećanac, who had placed themselves openly in the service of the German occupier, such as, for example, Budimir Cerski, Jovan Škavović, Nikola Kalabić, Boža Jovorski and others; ordered his commanders Miloš Glišić and Vučko Ignjatović to attack the partisans in Požega immediately after the liberation of Požega from the Germans in September 1941 and to seize it from the partisans; with his attitude of hostility and suspicion towards the partisans, he led his officer Ignjatović and his Chetnik detachment in Požega to disarm partisan couriers and smaller partisan groups, to stop the trains that were going from Čačak to Užice with transports of grain to feed the population, to hijack transports of weapons and ammunition that was sent from Užice to the front to the fighters who were fighting bloody battles with the Germans, to take the commander of the First Šumadija Partisan Detachment off the train Milan Blagojević, who was returning from Užice to the front behind Rudnik, and to kill him after brutal torture. Since he had already made the necessary preparations for a general attack on the partisans, and in accordance with the message that the English captain Hudson conveyed to him from his superiors, which read: "That the Yugoslavs should fight for Yugoslavia, and not that the fight turn into a communist rebellion for Soviet Russia", the accused Mihailović violated the agreement on the joint struggle of Chetniks and partisans against the occupiers and their domestic servants concluded in October 1941 with the commander of the national liberation partisan detachments of Yugoslavia Tito and on November 1, 1941, issued an order to the commanders of all his detachments to withdraw all detachments from the fronts towards the Germans and to launch a general attack on the partisans. Carrying out this order, all his detachments in Serbia left the fronts towards the Germans, opening a free way for the German forces to penetrate the liberated territory and started a general attack on the partisans, namely:
on the night between November 1 and 2, 1941, Chetniks under the command of Glišić and Ignjatović attacked Užice at positions called Trešnjica, only a few kilometers from Užice; on the night between November 1 and 2, 1941, Boža "Javorac" (who had placed himself under the command of Glišić and Ignjatović) suddenly attacked Ivanjica;
On November 6, 1941, the Chetniks, who had retreated from the front near Kraljevo a few days earlier, attacked insidiously and suddenly first the partisan tank unit and partisan artillery and destroyed the crew, and then attacked Čačak; the Chetnik detachment of Captain Račić carried out a second attack on Užice, the Chetnik detachment of Captain Neško and Lieutenant Popović Voja attacked the Kolubar Partisan Battalion at the positions near Valjevo, which was fighting against the Germans at that position;
g) after the collapse of the Chetnik attack on the partisans, the accused Mihailović continued the fight against the partisans, encouraged by the radio broadcasts of the Yugoslav refugee government, which, even in the midst of the Chetnik attack on the partisans, explained that the accused Mihailović was the only authorized representative of the king and the refugee government in the occupied country and that all forces which the fighters must place under his command. After that, the accused Mihailović, following the unanimous decision of his entire staff, went with his officers, Major Aleksandar Mišić, Colonel Branislav Pantić and Captain Nenad Mitrović to the village of Divci (ten kilometers from Valjevo) and in a tavern he met with representatives of the Germans: the chief of staff of the German military commander for Serbia as a Gestapo officer, captain dr. Josef Matl, and several other German officers. The meeting was held in the utmost secrecy under the protection of German tanks and a large number of German soldiers. Accused Mihailović informed the refugee government about this meeting through the English intelligence service by radiogram;
d) On November 20, 1941, the accused Mihailović, through his representatives and representatives of the Supreme Headquarters of the Partisan detachments of Yugoslavia, concluded an armistice agreement and undertook to lead the fight against the occupiers in the country in cooperation with the Partisans, so he violated that agreement even in the most difficult phase of the struggle. during the first enemy offensive against the liberated territory in Serbia, which began on November 23, 1941, he ordered his commanders not to fight with the Germans;
f) after the withdrawal of the main part of the Partisan forces from Serbia, the accused Mihailović, at the commanders' conference held on November 30, 1941 in Ravna Gora, issued an order to his commanders to legalize with the occupiers, that is, to openly and publicly enter the service of the Germans. Based on this order, the commanders of the accused Mihailovic entered the service of the Germans with their detachments, namely lieutenant Raković Predrag in Čačak, Glišić and Ignjatović in Požega, Pantelić in Loznica, Živan Lazović in the Belgrade district, Rajković Borivoje and Mladenović, captains, in Kosjerić, captain Mitić, Matić, Budimir Cerski, Škavović Jovan, Đurović Mašan and others. These legalized detachments with their commanders at the same time still recognized the accused Mihailović as their commander and received orders from him, and received weapons, food and clothing from the Germans and, together with the Germans, participated in operations against the remaining partisan detachments in Serbia and captured and killed patriots who helped the liberation struggle of the Serbian people. By implementing the agreement concluded with Nedić on the joint fight against the partisans, the accused Mihailović established strong ties with a large number of Nedić's commanders, Milan Kalabić, Radovan Stojanović and others, who, together with him and following his orders, fought against the partisans in Serbia during the winter of 1941. /42. and the spring of 1942; e) as early as 1941, after he had launched a popular uprising in Serbia and allied himself with the German occupier, the accused Mihailović joined the organization of Chetnik detachments in other countries and regions of Yugoslavia.
That's right:
In December 1941, the accused Mihailović sent his officers Milovan Nedeljković and Perhinek to Montenegro with the task of establishing contact with the Chetnik commanders in Montenegro and Sandžak, General Blazo Đukanović, Colonel Baj Stanišić, Major Đorđe Lašić and Captain Pavlo Đurišić and to convey to them his instructions for the fight against the partisans. At the end of 1941, these Chetnik commanders organized their detachments with the full help of the Italian occupier and, together with them, participated in the battles against the partisans, receiving weapons, food and some salaries from the Italians; in Sandžak, the accused Mihailović managed to put under his command the Sandžak Chetnik detachments, which at the same time had placed themselves openly in the service of the Italians and had participated in battles against the partisans since November 1941;
in the fall of 1941, the accused Mihailović sent his officers Major Boško Todorović, Lieutenant Mutimir Petković, Captain Sergi Mihailović, Lieutenant Momčilović and others to Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to organize the Chetniks, in addition to Gendarmerie Major Jezdimir Dangić, whom he had sent to Eastern Bosnia back in the popular uprising in Serbia. The accused Mihailović appointed Major Boško Todorović as the commander of Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, and upon his arrival in the field he concluded a written agreement on the cooperation of the Chetniks and the Italian occupiers in the fight against the partisans;
the commander of the accused Mihailović in eastern Bosnia, Jezdimir Dangić, after arriving in the field, breaks the unity of Chetniks and partisans in the fight against the Germans and Ustasha, lets the Germans into the liberated territory, and since the partisans stopped the Germans and managed to preserve a certain part of the free territory, Dangić connects with the Gestapo captain Matlom in Banja Koviljača and after the connection he went to Belgrade with the knowledge and approval of the accused Mihailović in order to seek help from the Germans and Nedić in the fight against partisans in eastern Bosnia;
at the same time, the local Chetnik commanders in eastern Bosnia, pop Savo Božić, Cvijetin Todić and others, who placed themselves under the command of the indicted officer Mihailović, captain Račić, who moved to eastern Bosnia in December 1941, concluded agreements with the Ustasa authorities on cooperation in with the aim of destroying the partisans and, together with the Ustasha, fought against the partisans in eastern Bosnia;
in the course of 1941, the commander of the accused Mihailović, Ilija Trifunović from Birčan, with the help of the Italian occupiers, established Chetnik detachments in western Bosnia and JTica, and then in Dalmatia, which, in close cooperation with the Italians, also fought against the partisans. He placed a significant part of the Chetniks, as a special formation, known as the "volunteer anti-communist militia" (MVAK = Milicia volontaria anticomunista) under the direct command of the Italians, whose main task was to destroy the anti-fascists in Dalmatia; During this period, the accused Mihailović sent his officer, Major Karl Novak, to Slovenia, who, in cooperation with the occupiers and the Quisling White Guard, organized Slovenian Chetniks known as the "Blue Guard". Although the few units of the accused Mihailović in Slovenia under the command of Major Novak cooperated openly with the occupier and the Slovenian Quisling "White Guard";
h) at the end of 1941 and the beginning of 1942, a general popular uprising flared up in Montenegro, eastern Bosnia and Sancak. Following the line of treason and with the intention of suppressing the popular uprising in these regions, the accused Mihailović in May 1942 moved from Serbia to Mount Zlatar, and from there to Montenegro and directly managed the operations of the Chetnik units under the command of Miloš Glišić and Vučko Ignjatović, from Serbia, Petar Baćović , from Eastern Bosnia, Blaž Ćukanović, Pavle Đurišić, Đorđe Lašić, Ivan Ružić, Baja Stanišić, Jakov Jovović and Sim Mijušković, from Montenegro, and the legalized detachments of Nikola Bojović, Vuk Kalaitović, Vojvoda Ilić and Rad Korda, which were Chetnik units, together with the Italians, then participated in the fourth enemy offensive against partisan units in Montenegro and Sandžak. In this offensive, all mentioned Chetnik units under the command of the accused Mihailović received weapons, ammunition and food from the Italians, while the units of Mihailović's commander, Blaž Đukanović, received a salary in addition to this. During the operations, the Italians transported Chetnik units with their means of transport from sector to sector, and Chetnik commanders, including the members of the supreme command of the accused Mihailovic, were transported in cars through the Italian garrisons. The accused Mihailović himself and his headquarters were stationed in the immediate vicinity of the Italian garrisons. After heavy and persistent battles with the Italians and Chetniks, especially in the sector of Sinjajevina, Kamena Gora Kosanica, Nikšić Golija, Nikšić Travnik, Orlovac and Gat, and a brutal Chetnik attack on the partisan hospital and the fifth shock brigade in Ćurevo, the partisan forces, under pressure from the Italian divisions, and thanks to the treachery of the accused Chetnik Mihailović, they were forced to retreat from the free territory of Montenegro, Sandžak, eastern Bosnia, Herzegovina to the western and central Bosnia;
z) after the partisans were forced to leave the free territory in Montenegro, Sandžak, eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Chetniks of the accused Mihailović extended their cooperation with the Italian occupier and, together with him, introduced and implemented a system of terror over the people in that territory. In the immediate vicinity of Kolašin, where the commander of the indicted Mihailovic, Pavle Đurišić, welcomes and greets the war criminal Italian General Pirci Biroli, the governor of Montenegro, and the Chetniks of the indicted Mihailovic slaughter and hang Montenegrin patriots, the indicted Mihailovic and his staff from Lipovo direct Chetnik actions to destroy the popular uprising , supported by the English Major Hudson, who at that time asked the accused Mihailović to "meet with Captain Đurišić and Colonel Stanisic and other leaders who so successfully fought against the communists and freed their regions from them" and generously helped materially and politically by the émigré government in London;
i) after an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the partisan forces on the Dinara and in western and central Bosnia by fighting jointly with the Italians, Germans and Ustashas in the fall of 1942, the accused Mihailović was encouraged by the English colonel Bailey to destroy the partisan forces and the partisan free territory before the landing of the allies in the Balkans, he began to carefully carry out preparations for the participation of Chetnik units in the fourth enemy offensive, so he personally made and the plan of operations for the participation of the Chetniks in this offensive. The German and Italian occupiers, assessing the importance of the liberation uprising of the people of Yugoslavia for the liberation struggle of the people of enslaved Europe and the danger for their planned operations in North Africa and the Middle East, decided to finally and completely destroy the uprising in Yugoslavia. For this purpose, the German and Italian high command create a unified plan for the execution of joint operations in the upcoming fourth enemy offensive and designate the following units for those operations: a) German: 7. SS "Prince Eugen" Division, 369 Infantry Division, 717 Fighter Division and 718 infantry division and other special motorized, tank, artillery, aviation units; b) Italian divisions: "Lombardy", "Re", "Sassari", "Murđe" and "Taurinenze"; c) Ustasha associations, home defense units and militia detachments. After making preparations, the accused Mihailović designated the following Chetnik units to participate in these operations: the first corps of Major Bjelajac with 2.000 Chetniks, the second corps of Popa Đujić with 2.000 Chetniks, the third corps of Major Baćović with 3.000 Chetniks, 600 Chetniks under the command of Novak Mijović, 5.000 Chetniks under the command of Baja Stanišić, 3.000 Chetniks under the command of Bora Mitranović and 5.000 Chetniks under the command of Pavel Đurišić.
The main operations in the fourth enemy offensive took place from January 15 to mid-April 1943, in the territory from the Kupa River to the Neretva River, where the famous "Battle for the Wounded" took place in the "pocket" of the Neretva, all the way to the Drina River. The previously mentioned German, Italian, Pavelić and Chetnik units of the accused Mihailović jointly participated in these operations, which received weapons, ammunition, food from the occupiers and were supported by the occupier's artillery, aviation and tanks. The Chetnik units were commanded by the accused Mihailović through Major Ostojić and directly. In the final phase of the operations on the Drina river, the accused Mihailović also commanded the external parts of the Italian division "Taurinenze". In this offensive, the occupying and Chetnik units burned and devastated entire areas and mass exterminated the civilian population, which was retreating with its national army in front of the enemy.
j) at the time when the fourth enemy offensive was taking place, in the territory from the Kupa via the Neretva to the Drina, the Chetniks of the accused Mihailović, according to his directives and in other areas throughout Yugoslavia, led joint battles with the occupiers and local Quislings against the People's Liberation Army and partisan detachments of Yugoslavia. Thus, in Serbia, the Chetniks of the accused Mihailović under the command of Predrag Raković, Zvonimir Vučković and others together with the Germans, Nedić's and Ljotić's detachments, Bulgarian occupation units and units of the Russian and White Guard corps participated in joint battles against the partisans. According to the directives and with the approval of the accused Mihailović, the Chetnik detachments in Bosnia concluded a series of further agreements with the Germans and Ustashas, in Slovenia with the Slovenian "White Guard" on cooperation, and after the capitulation of Italy in September 1943 in 1943, the Chetnik detachments of the accused Mihailović all over the country came under the protection of the Germans and in open cooperation with them and received orders, weapons, ammunition and other military equipment from them; k) receiving material aid and directives from the emigre governments, to maintain it militarily at all costs, as well as the message of the English General Masterson to liquidate the communists as soon as possible and that then a more favorable situation for the Chetniks will arise and that the English will change their attitude, their propaganda and their policy towards the accused Mihailović, the accused Mihailović for the entire time since the summer of XNUMX. until the end of the war, held a series of meetings and entered into contact with representatives of the German command in Yugoslavia, with domestic traitors Nedić, Pavelić and Ljotić and reactionary elements in Croatia, in order to continue the fight against the liberation movement of the people of Yugoslavia. Thus, on the orders of the accused Mihailović, during April and May 1944, meetings held between Mihailović's commander of Serbia, General Trifunović, the accused Topalović Živko and Captain Raković, on the one hand, and Gestapo agents Šterker, Milan Aćimović and Dimitrije Ljotić, Ilija Mihailović, on the other hand, in the villages of Vranići, Trbušana and Brđana, which led to agreement on conducting joint operations against the partisans and the supply of weapons to the Chetniks by the Germans. In addition to his commanders, the accused Mihailović personally meets around 20 August 1944 in the village of Ražani near Kosjerić with Milan Nedić and the accused Dragomir Jovanović, at which meeting an agreement was made that Nedić would give the accused Mihailović one hundred million dinars in financial aid per month, that Nedić would undertake the obligation to deliver 30.000 rifles to the accused Mihailović from the Germans, three million of rifle and machine gun bullets, that Nedic will deliver uniforms and shoes to the accused Mihailović, that Nedic will, in order to coordinate actions against the People's Liberation Army if allowed by the Germans, to place their armed formations under the command of the accused Mihailović and that the accused Mihailović guarantee Nedić that the weapons will not be used against the Germans; in addition to this, the accused Mihailović personally met with the head of the administrative staff of the German military commander for Serbia, Neubacher, in the village of Roscima near the Cagan school in August 1944. year, and with Gestapo officer Sterker four more times, namely in the village of Pranjani, in August 1944. near the village of Draginje during the escape of the accused Mihailović from Serbia to Bosnia in September 1944. and twice in Bosnia in the Sarajevo area at the end of 1944. and early 1945. years. The first three meetings between the accused Mihailovic and representatives of the Germans, namely the meetings in Rošci (near the Caganj school), Pranjani and Draginja, were attended by American Colonel Mac Dowell, who, after the British government officially withdrew its military missions from the accused Mihailovic and of his commanders, came to the accused Mihailović in his capacity as the head of the American military mission and as such asked the Germans to lay down their arms exclusively to the accused Mihailović, while he assured the accused Mihailović that he must be held in the people and that the United States of America is exclusively assisting the accused Mihailović and his organization. The accused Mihailović was still in the winter of 1942. Through Pinterović and Mate Rusković, he established a connection with the Macekovites in Croatia, which he constantly maintained until the end of the war for the purpose of uniting the military units that the Macekovites intended to form under the supreme command of the accused Mihailović in order to fight together against the national liberation movement. In March 1945, the accused Mihailović joined the fight against the national liberation movement. through lawyer Brašić established a connection and sent letters to Archbishop Stepinac and Anto Pavelić, the organizer of the massacre of the Serbian and Croatian people.
In the same period from the summer of 1943 until the end of the war, while the accused Mihailović and his commanders concluded the aforementioned agreements, his units together with the Germans and the Quisling formations continued to fight against the People's Liberation Army and the Yugoslav Army, namely the Chetniks under the command of a member of the supreme command, Draža Mihailović, Major Ostojić, Đurišić, Drašković, Kalaitović, Cvetić, Lalatović, Račić, Vučković, Nikola Kalabić, Marković, Radović, Neško Nedić, Tufegcić, Keserović and others, in Sancak and Serbia, and under the command of Radić Radić, Vranješević, Drenović, Bora Mitranović, Todić Cvijetina, Damjanović Steve-Leka in Bosnia, Đujić, Jevđević, Bjelajc, Baćović, Lukačević and others in Bosnia and Croatia and others;
l) Concluding his treacherous actions that he carried out throughout the war of liberation and occupation, the accused Mihailović, before the expulsion of the Germans from Yugoslavia and the destruction of the Chetnik units, switched to terrorism. That's right: in March 1945, in Modriča, Bosnia, he founded a school for terrorists, which he named the "royal commandos", and the terrorist sabotage group Gašparević, which he knew was sent to Serbia directly by the Gestapo from Vienna in order to carry out sabotage. , diversion, assassination and other crimes, accepted, placed under his command, assigned her a task and sent her to Serbia with his commander Topalović. He gave orders to other commanders to also switch to terrorist actions, so certain commanders, after the cessation of war operations, blew up bridges and trains and carried out assassinations, until they were caught;
lj) Accused Mihailović Dragoljub-Draža and his Chetnik commanders, on his orders and directives, carried out massive operations in the so-called by clearing the terrain, then by means of flying brigades and black troikas during the entire war and occupation, countless war crimes against the people in all parts of Yugoslavia.
So they are:
in November 1941, the Chetniks shot about 500 captured partisans and their supporters in the village of Braići at a place called Drenovi Vrh;
the accused Mihailović in the night between November 13 and 14, 1941, i.e. on the same night when he met with the Gestapo officer, Captain Matla, he ordered his commander Daka Tešmanović to hand over about 365 captured partisans to the Serbian state guard in the village of Slovac, although he must have known that the Serbian state guard would shoot them or hand them over to the Germans, this was done so that Tešmanović handed them over to Jovan Škava, who handed them over to the Germans. The Germans shot about 270 of these surrendered partisans, and sent the rest to camps; at the beginning of November 1941, Mihailović's commander Ajdačić slaughtered thirteen partisan sympathizers near Kosjerić at a place called Ridovi, among them the teacher Jelena Subić-Gmizović and Mileva Kosovac, whom the Chetniks raped and disfigured with a red-hot iron before slaughtering them; On November 4, 1941, the Chetniks killed about 30 partisans near Ravna Gora, whom they had fraudulently captured, among whom were 18 girls who had been sent to Užice to become nurses; in December 1941, Mihailović's Chetniks shot together with the Germans in Čačak only one at most 80 members of the national liberation movement;
in December 1941, in the Požega region, a mixed German-Chetnik court sentenced 12 partisans to death at once; in December 1941 and during January 1942, the Chetniks slaughtered over 2.000 Muslim men, women and children from the vicinity of Foča, Goražde and Čajnič. The slaughter was carried out on the bridges over the Drina in Foča and Goražde;
in December 1941 and throughout 1942, Mihailović's "legalized" Chetniks arrested and handed over to the Germans in various parts of Serbia thousands of partisan supporters who were shot by the Germans in camps in Banjica, Niš, Užice, Čačak and other places, and in addition, they themselves the Chetniks killed thousands of partisan supporters, looted many villages, beat thousands of people, and raped a large number of women and girls from partisan families;
On April 1942, 20, Rad Radić's Chetniks killed XNUMX wounded partisans in Jošavka, among them the seriously wounded national hero dr. Mladen Stojanović;
in April 1942, the Chetniks JTazar Tešanović and Rad Radić (who had then placed themselves under the command of Mihailović's captain Račić) killed 70 wounded partisans;
at the end of April 1942, Spasoje Dakić, the commander of Mihailović's battalion in Čelebić, killed the English Major Terence Atherton and his radio-telegrapher and an English sergeant; in June 1942, Mihailović's Chetniks in the vicinity of Gack, in the village of Izgorima, set fire to a hospital with ten seriously wounded partisans;
in June 1942, Mihailović's detachment under the command of Captain Vladimir Đukić took 25 supporters of the national liberation movement out of the prison in Nikšić and shot them together with the Italians;
in August 1942, Mihailović's commander Baćović killed sympathizers of the national liberation movement Rada Pravica, Toma Galen, Jovo JBubibratić, Budimir Žiropina and Tasa Kesarić; in August 1942, Mihailović's Chetniks under the command of Petar Baćović, during the occupation of Foča, slaughtered about 1.000 people of the Muslim faith in Foča and the villages collectively called Bukovica, among whom there were about 300 women, children and the elderly; in August 1942, in the area around Ustikolina and Jahorina (eastern Bosnia), Mihailović's Chetniks under the command of Major Zaharij Ostojić and Petar Baćović slaughtered around 25.000 people of the Muslim faith and burned villages;
in September 1942, the Chetniks of Petar Baćović killed about 900 Croats in Makarska, skinned several Catholic priests and set 17 villages on fire;
in October 1942, the Chetniks killed Petar Baćović in the vicinity of Prozor together with the Italians, who were commanded by the Italian lieutenant Viđak, about 2.500 Muslims and Croats, among whom there were women, children and the elderly, and they set a large number of villages on fire; in October 1942, Petar Baćović's Chetniks killed 100 Croats as sympathizers of the national liberation movement in the villages of Gata, Niklice and Čislo in Dalmatia, together with the Italians; in the fall of 1942, in Drežnica (Herzegovina), Chetniks from the vicinity of Gack slaughtered about a hundred people of the Muslim faith during the campaign to Prozor;
In December 1942, in the village of Brajinci (Mrkajić, eastern Bosnia) and the surrounding villages, the Chetniks of Mihailović's commander, Rajko Celonja, killed 160 peasants and burned down the village of Brajnice and several other villages. Among those killed were women and children; In January 1943, Major Cvetić slaughtered sixteen captured partisans in the vicinity of Užice;
in January 1943, under the command of Komarčević, Mihailović's Chetniks slaughtered 72 partisan sympathizers in the Posavina region; in January 1943, Pavle Đurišić's Chetniks killed about 400 men and about 1.000 Muslim women and children in the Bjelopolje region;
in February 1943, the Chetniks under the command of Zaharij Ostojić, Petr Baćović, Pavel Đurišić, Voja Lukačević, Vuk Kalaitović and others, in the Pljeval, Čajnički and Fočan sections, slaughtered 1.200 men and 8.000 old men, women and children and looted and then burned 2.000 homes ;
in the middle of July 1943, in the whole of Cikota (eastern Bosnia), the Chetniks discovered 80 wounded of the first proletarian division, took away their weapons, and the next day brought the Germans who killed them and then burned them;
in June 1943, during the fifth enemy offensive, the Chetniks slaughtered partisan wounded from Sutjeska, and then they slaughtered Dr. Simo Milošević and the Croatian poet Ivan Goran Kovačić in the villages of Jelača and Vrbnica;
in July 1943, in Bishina (Birač), the Chetniks discovered the wounded of the first and second proletarian brigades and handed them over to the Germans, who killed them;
in December 1943, the Chetnik commander Major Petrićević shot 28 captured partisans and six peasant supporters of the partisans in Kolašin;
in December 1943, the Chetnik commander Živan Lazović slaughtered 15 peasants who were supporters of the partisans in the village of Selevac; in December 1943, Chetniks slaughtered 137 captured partisans in the vicinity of Bosanski Grahov;
in December 1943, Chetniks slaughtered 28 captured partisans in the village of Tičevo near Drvar;
in December 1943, the Chetniks in Zeta (Montenegro) slaughtered eight peasant delegates to the first anti-fascist assembly of Montenegro; in December 1943, the Chetniks of Nikola Kalabić slaughtered 21 peasants in the village of Kopljarima near Arandjelovac;
in December 1943, Vuk Kalaitović's Chetniks shot 18 partisan supporters in the Sjenica region;
In December 1943, Chetniks under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Miodrag Palošević and Major Trifković Sveta slaughtered 73 people in the village of Vranić, near Belgrade, including one child aged two years and another aged three months. One of the victims was castrated. In addition, they looted peasant homes;
from June 1942 to March 1943, Mihailović's Chetniks under the command of Pavel Đurišić sentenced to death and shot about 1.000 Montenegrin partisans and peasants for participating in the liberation uprising in Montenegro; On April 29, 1944, the Chetnik detachment of Captain Živojin Lazović, Major Svetislav Tripković, Nikola Kalabić, Dragutin Bojović, Sveta Bogićević, Radovan Dokmanović and Sveta Radičević slaughtered 73 people, including nine women, in the village of Drugovac (Belgrade district). On that occasion, they severely abused 37 other persons and robbed and then burned 220 homes; in April 1944, the Chetniks slaughtered eight partisan sympathizers near Bajina Bašta;
in May 1944, Dragutin Keserović's Chetniks found a partisan hospital in Jastrebac and shot 24 wounded and 4 nurses;
in May 1944, the Chetniks discovered partisan hospitals in Semberija and killed around 300 seriously wounded;
in the summer of 1944, in the village of Balinović, the Chetniks roasted Živan Đurđević, a peasant from Balinović, alive in front of 20 people, and then slaughtered him and his son;
on August 1944, Dušan Radović Kondor, the commander of Mihailović's Zlatibor Corps, slaughtered two American aviators of French origin who had made a forced parachute descent near the Lima River;
In August 1944, the Chetnik detachment of Sveta Bogićević caught Srbija, Sremčević Sava, Konstantin Vojinović, Ilija Radojević and Ilija Jovanović in the village of Sepcim, and after torturing them in order to force a confession of cooperation with the partisans, they slaughtered all four of them.
In addition to this, tens of thousands of people were abused and beaten by the Chetniks, and in Montenegro they had introduced a special system of beatings using "roglje".
The commanders of the accused Mihailović left lists of partisan supporters to the occupiers and Quislings, on the basis of which people were arrested and shot. In particular, the Belgrade Chetnik Organization closely cooperated with the special police on the destruction of Partisan supporters in Belgrade. The enumerated crimes are only a small part of the crimes committed by the accused Mihailović's Chetniks, implementing his orders and directives, in all parts of Yugoslavia.
Accused of the exposed actions: Mihailović, Moljević, Žujović, Topalović, Vilović, Radić, Vranješević, Glišić, Jovanović Slobodan, Purić, Nincić, Živković, Knežević Radoje, Gavriloviić, Knežević Živan, Fotić, Jovanović Dragomir, Dinić, Jonić, Dokić, Mušicki and Pavlović committed the crimes of treason and war crimes from Article 3, items 3, 4 and 6 of the Law on Criminal crimes against the people and the state, and the accused Mihailović, Vranješević and Mušicki also committed criminal acts of organizing armed gangs with the aim of violently overthrowing the existing state system from Article 3, item 7 of the same Law; the accused Marković and Kumanudi committed the criminal acts of treason and war crimes from Article 3, items 3, 6 of the Law on Criminal Offenses against the People and the State, and the accused Marković also committed the criminal act from Article 2 of the Law on the Prohibition of Inciting National, Racial and Religious Hatred and discord.
From the foregoing, and based on the cited legal regulations and Article 4 of the Law on Criminal Offenses against the People and the State, and the accused Kumanudi based on Article 6/1 of the same Law; of Article 5 of the Law on Criminal Offenses Against the People and the State in connection with Article 16 of the Law on Citizenship of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Articles 1, 3, 5 and 6 of the Law on Types of Punishment, the court sentences them:
1) Mihailović Dragoljub Draža to death by firing squad, permanent loss of political and individual civil rights and confiscation of all property;
2) Moljević Stevan to a sentence of imprisonment with forced labor for a period of twenty years, loss of political and certain civil rights except parental rights for a period of ten years, and confiscation of all property. His sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor is to be counted from September 3, 1945, when he was deprived of his liberty;
3) Žujović Mladen to death by firing squad, permanent loss of political and certain civil rights, confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship;
4) Živka Topalović to imprisonment with forced labor for twenty years, loss of political and individual civil rights for ten years, confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship. The sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor begins to run from the day he is deprived of his liberty;
5) Vilović Đur to imprisonment with forced labor for seven years, loss of political and individual civil rights for three years and confiscation of all property. His sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor is to be counted from September 3, 1945, as the day he was deprived of his liberty;
6) Radić Radoslav Rad to death by firing squad, permanent loss of political and individual civil rights, confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship;
7) Vranješević Slavoljub to a sentence of imprisonment with forced labor for a period of twenty years, loss of political and individual civil rights except parental rights for a period of ten years, and confiscation of all property. His sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor is counted from September 20, 1945, as the day he was deprived of his liberty;
8) Miloš Glišić to death by firing squad, permanent loss of political and individual civil rights and confiscation of all property;
9) Jovanović Slobodan to the penalty of deprivation of liberty with forced labor for twenty years, loss of political and certain civil rights for ten years, confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship. The sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor begins to run from the day he is deprived of his liberty;
10) Purić Božidar to a sentence of imprisonment with forced labor for sixteen years, loss of political and certain civil rights for ten years, confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship. The sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor begins to run from the day he is deprived of his liberty;
11) Ninčić Momčil to a sentence of imprisonment with forced labor for eight years, loss of political and individual civil rights for five years, confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship. The sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor begins to run from the day he is deprived of his liberty;
12) Petar Živković to death by firing squad, permanent loss of political and individual civil rights, confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship;
13) Knežević Radoj to a sentence of imprisonment with forced labor for ten years, loss of political and individual civil rights for five years, confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship. The sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor begins to run from the day he is deprived of his liberty;
14) Milan Gavrilović to a sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor for a period of fifteen years, loss of political and certain civil rights for a period of eight years, confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship. The sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor begins to run from the day he is deprived of his liberty;
15) Knežević Živan to imprisonment with forced labor for twenty years, loss of political and individual civil rights for ten years, confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship. The sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor begins to run from the day he is deprived of his liberty;
16) Konstantin Fotić to a sentence of imprisonment with forced labor for twenty years, loss of political and individual civil rights for ten years, confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship. The sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor begins to run from the day he is deprived of his liberty;
17) Jovanović Dragomir-Dragog to death by firing squad, permanent loss of political and individual civil rights and confiscation of all property;
18) Dinić Tanasi to death sentence by firing squad, permanent loss of political and individual civil rights and confiscation of all property;
19) Jonić Velibor to death by firing squad, permanent loss of political and individual civil rights and confiscation of all property;
20) Dokić Ćura to be sentenced to death by firing squad, permanent loss of political and individual civil rights and confiscation of all property;
21) Mušicki Kosto to death by firing squad, permanent loss of political and individual civil rights and confiscation of all property;
22) Pavlović Boško to death by firing squad, permanent loss of political and individual civil rights and confiscation of all property;
23) Marković Lazar-Laza was sentenced to imprisonment with forced labor for a period of six years, loss of political and individual civil rights, except for parental rights, for a period of three years and confiscation of all property. His sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor is to be counted from September 2, 1945, as the day he was deprived of his liberty;
24) Kumanudi Kosta to imprisonment with forced labor for a period of eighteen months, loss of political and certain civil rights, except for parental rights, for a period of two years and confiscation of all property. His sentence of deprivation of liberty with forced labor is to be counted from March 3, 1946 as the day he was deprived of his liberty;
Judgment of the Supreme Court - Military Department delivered on July 15, 1946 (excerpt from the court record)
(See also: Prof. Ph.D. Miodrag Zečević: Documents from the trial of Draža Mihailović (.pdf))
(See also: Final speech of the accused Dragoljub Mihailović Draža, prof. Ph.D. Miodrag Zečević: Documents from the trial of Draža Mihailović (.pdf) )
