“Why are the Serbs the worst enemies of their brothers, because the invasion of Serbia into Montenegro was worse than the invasion of Austria, and the armistice worse than the war”! Starvation, devastation, violence, banditry, misery, even Red Cross aid was not distributed, lest they perish!”
– Charles Wellington
Cited from the article:
“In 1919, Serbia had a clear plan to destroy Montenegro. Selected and edited by Slobodan Cukic.
“They are dissatisfied with Serbia, because they are disappointed with both political and economic conditions (General Dragutin Milutinović, commander of the Austrian occupation troops in Montenegro, January 2, 1914)
Colonel J. Burnam, head of the Canadian humanitarian mission, wrote in a letter from 1930:
“This unfortunate country is going from bad to worse. The people cannot live any longer. The whole country is in a state of chaos. The people are losing consciousness because of these terrible atrocities. The Syrians have resorted to every vile device they could think of, and when they threaten to kill me, what will they do to that poor people who have no one to help them?”
Starvation
Milo Durov Petrović writes: “They took all the help that the Red Cross sent from other countries. Our women and children were starving, but no one wanted to receive food or medical needs without Serbia being the one in charge.”
Caris Wellington Parlong states that in 1919, Serbia had a clear plan to destroy Montenegro. Among the notes of the American major is the following sentence: “Why does Serbia have the most powerful army?”
The poor Montenegrin people have no means or means to buy food. It is said that they live on a kind of grass that grows wild in the mountains. The condition of the people is generally very poor. When they get sick, they have almost no resistance to get over it. They are at a point of exhaustion, wrote Alex Devine.
The Serbian invasion of Montenegro was worse than the Austrian invasion, and the armistice is worse than the war, wrote Charles Wellington Furlong.
From the publication “Nekoliko Stranica Iz Krvavog Albuma Karađorđevića” from 1921
Serbian atrocities against Montenegrins
General Petrović is still in prison in Podgorica, where he is completely blind. He has been asking for permission to have eye surgery for several months, but has not received it to this day.
In January 1919, the Serbian authorities imprisoned the captain of Rudina, Mr. Mojaš Perović. To humiliate him, they put a saddle on his back and he was led by Serbian agents all over Nikšić, after which he was thrown into prison.
Serbian crimes against Montenegrin women and children
In January 1919, the wife of Živko Janjušević from Ozrinić (Nikšić district) gave birth in prison, where she was imprisoned out of revenge against her Ustasha husband.
On February 2, 1919, a Serbian patrol arrived in the village of Dragovoljiće (Nikšić district), from where it abducted the wife of Ilinka I. Simović, taking 60,000 crowns from her. A few days later, a peasant found her dead body in the Bistrica River, with eighteen bayonet wounds. The Serbian authorities in Nikšić did not want to investigate this crime, but ordered that the unfortunate victim be buried at night.
One day, in December 1918, at 1 o’clock, a group of Serbian officers, soldiers and a group of the worst the fuqaha, with which they terrorized the honest and peaceful stavovpis, the shavr she committed the following heinous crime in Nikšić, wanting to kill the authority of the worm, that is, the patron saint of the Montenegrin people Montenegrin state, they made three coffins, in the shape of coffins chest.
On one was written (v. Peter, on the other Hov. Basil, and then thirdly the Montenegrin crown. These coffins are carried through the town of Nivšoc to Pačin, as church processions are made, they quietly lingered in the square, where they dug three graves, in which they laid down these three coffins. After this they held a vigil, as is done in the orthodox church at a funeral, How It is a true Orthodox custom to pour wine over the entrails and oil, that’s right, instead, Serbian officers publicly reprimanded graves.
