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When Serbian troos placed women and children in front of them to prevent the Montenegrins from defending themselves in 1919

Author and translator: Petrit Latifi.

Balkan Academia

When Serbian troops placed women and children in front of them to prevent the Montenegrins from defending themselves in 1919

Cited from the (c) New York Times 1919:

“Fierce fighting by the Montenegrir people against the Serbian occupation occurred around Cetinje between De cember 1 and December 12. The state ment asserts that the Serbians placed women and children in front of them to prevent the Montenegrins from defending themselves.”

Context

The article refees to the fighting around Cetinje during the Christmas Uprising (Božićni ustanak), which peaked on January 7, 1919. Montenegrin separatists (Greens) fought against the forced annexation of Montenegro to Serbia backed by the Serbian Army, led by Krsto Popović (military leader) and Jovan Plamenac (political leader) for the rebels.

Casualties

Roughly 30 killed on the rebel side during the main clashes in Cetinje, with nearly 100 total casualties

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