Jovo Kapičić has died.

December 12, 23:07 p.m

NOB, General UDBE, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the SFRY TIME 1197, December 12, 2013: How did we capture Draža? Parts of the interview that Jovo Kapičić gave to Tamara Nikčević published in the book "Bare Islands" by Jovo Kapičić

General UDBE, Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs FNRJ, National Hero of Yugoslavia and Ambassador Jovo Kapičić died on December 9 at the age of 94, after a short and serious illness.

He was born on September 2, 1919 in the Italian city of Gaeta, where his parents fled after the Christmas Uprising in 1919. His father was a professor at the Cetinje Seminary, in 1918 a Montenegrin comita and a member of the Montenegrin Federalist Party.

Jovo grew up in Cetinje, where he completed elementary school and five grades of high school, from which he was expelled for participating in a school strike. Without the right to regular education, he prepared privately and finished school at the Kotor gymnasium. Until 1941, he studied at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. And at that time he was arrested and imprisoned several times. During his studies, Jovo dated Davorjanka Paunović Zdenko, who during the war was the personal secretary of the Supreme Commander of the NOV and POJ Josip Broz Tito and his unmarried wife.

As a fifteen-year-old, Jovo Kapičić was accepted into the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) in 1934, and two years later into the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In April 1941, after the capitulation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he was sent to Montenegro, where, in July 1941, he became a member of the KPJ District Committee for Cetinje. He was one of the organizers of the Thirteenth of July Uprising in the Cetinje region, and a member of the KPJ District Committee. he was also the commissioner of the Lovcen partisan detachment

He was a fighter of the First Proletarian Brigade since its formation in 1941 and the political commissar of its First Montenegrin Battalion. In October 1942, he was appointed deputy political commissar of the Second Dalmatian Strike Brigade, in 1943 he became political commissar of the Third Strike Division, and at the end of 1944, commissar of the Twelfth Vojvodina Corps NOVJ.

After the war, he held high positions in the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was the Minister of Internal Affairs in the first Government of the People's Republic of Montenegro. As a general of the UDBE, he coordinated the capture of Draža Mihailović from Višegrad, which was carried out by the UDBA of Serbia, and then he was sent to Montenegro for the liquidation of remaining Chetniks.

The Montenegrin Higher State Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation after human remains were found in the Mandića cave on Sinjajevina, and the information was confirmed by the Police Directorate. According to the press, Kapičić confirmed that he was in Sinjajevina in February of that year, but denied that the Chetniks were liquidated by his order in February 1947, which was blamed on the National Defense Corps of Yugoslavia, KNOJ.

Jovo Kapičić was declared a national hero in July 1950. Following the resolution of the Informburo, as assistant to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the FNRJ Aleksandar Ranković and head of state security, he participated in the selection of Gologi Otok as a camp where between 16.000 (official estimate) and 30.000 political prisoners were held. declared in favor of the resolution of the Informburo of the Comintern in 1948 or were suspected of being pro-Soviet and Stalinist elements. Kapičić visited Goli otok three times. Prisoners were transported to the Golootok camp for so-called re-education without a court decision on the basis of a so-called administrative measure. According to the statement of Aleksandar Ranković, a third of the detainees were innocent. The official name of the camp, commanded by Ante Raštegorac in the period from 1949 to 1951, was "Workshop for administratively punished men/women with socially useful work", and from 1951 to 1956, "Labor reception camp for political prisoners".

Kapičić did not recognize the credibility of the testimony about the violence and torture of prisoners, and he declared for himself: "I am the biggest victim of Goli otok."

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Jovo Kapicic:

How we caught Draža

The operation to capture Draža began in Dobrun. Mihailović had a personal one
the guard, today we would say - bodyguards, who were liquidated by our boys. He was
is done! They put chains on his hands and told me to come. I arrived at
"marici" without windows. I congratulated the boys on a successful action
and led Mihailović into the car.

TN: What did you tell him?

JK: Not a word! I placed him in the back, sat next to him and we set off for Belgrade. I remember that we stopped to have lunch in Titovo Užice.
"General, do you want the boys to bring you lunch, drinks?" I asked
I prefer.

"I don't want anything, thank you" - he refused.

TN: How did Draža Mihailović act?

JK: Sad. Small and shriveled as he was, he looked miserable and helpless. Whole
on the way he was clutching a dirty shoelace in his hand, he was silent, he didn't say a word. U
We arrived in Belgrade around three o'clock in the afternoon. I took him to the office of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia, Slobodan Penezić Krcun. He was not in the office, I was told that he was in Novi Sad.

Tito was visiting Poland, so I called Ranković:

"Comrade Marko, I'm here!"

»Where are you from, Jovo?! "Why did you leave Visegrad?!" he asked me.
Not wanting to tell him such news over the phone, I invited him to
came to Krcun's office, which was located in Đušina Street. Probably
Suspecting something, Ranković arrived like a bullet. He couldn't believe it.

TN: Did Draža Mihailović say something to Ranković?

JK: Nothing! He was silent, sitting huddled on a chair... Ours was standing next to Draža
officer, who was careful not to jump out of the window, not to commit suicide.
Soon Krcun arrived, so we gathered again in his office
Ranković, Draža Mihailović with the policeman who was in charge of him and me.
"Besides the Serbian, is there anywhere else in the world a nation where the deputy agrees."
to betray his commander-in-chief?!'

That was all that Draža Mihailović said.

TN: Did you follow the trial?

JK: I did, of course. There were some interventions from abroad to get Draži
Save Mihailović's head. I heard Titus when he said:
»How can we save his head?! What will Serbia say?!«

TN: What do you mean: what will Serbia say?

JK: It was a different time. Serbia insisted on its anti-fascism, a
The Serbs were very careful that one of the other peoples of the FNRJ
do not accuse them in any way of protecting the collaborators of the occupiers, quislings of any kind
was Draža Mihailović. Today, unfortunately, it is different... You can see that they are looking
Draža's rehabilitation...

TN: How do you view that?

JK: Like a systematic attempt to falsify history.

From the interview that Jovo Kapičić gave to Tamara Nikčević published in the book "The Bare Islands of Jovo Kapičić

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