BELGRADE -- The government has removed the confidential classification from all documents concerning the execution of General Dragoljub Draža Mihajlović.
This is according to State Secretary with the Justice Ministry Slobodan Homen.
He told Tanjug on Thursday that the session the government also instructed all ministries and individual organizations to remove the confidential classification from documents relating to the event.
According to Homen, the same decision releases all persons in possession of information and knowledge regarding the execution of Mihajlović and the location of his remains from keeping the official, state and military secret.
Homen believes that this is a very important decision which creates necessary preconditions for the efficient work of the commission for determining the facts on the execution of Mihajlović, formed on April 27.
As a commander of the Chetnik movement, also known as the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland, General Mihajlović was tried in 1946 for alleged collaborationwith the occupying Nazi German forces and for treason, and was sentenced to death.
However, his burial place remains unknown.
A commission set up to determine the circumstances of the execution of the death penalty on Mihajlović will now begin its work.
Draža Mihajlović , 1893-1946, Yugoslav soldier. He fought with the chetniks, a Serbian guerrilla force, in the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and in World War I, and after the conquest (1941) of Yugoslavia in World War II he headed the revived chetnik forces. His successful operations earned him promotion to general and appointment (1942) as minister of war by the Yugoslav government-in-exile. An ardent royalist and Serbian nationalist, he soon clashed with the partisans of Marshal Tito . Mihajlović's forces gradually dwindled while Tito's increased, and by 1944 he had lost Allied support and was reluctantly dismissed by King Peter II . Mihajlović continued antipartisan warfare with the remnants of his forces, but he was captured by the Tito authorities and tried on charges of collaboration and treason. Evidence indicates that Mihajlović, who considered the Communists a greater threat than the Axis Powers, did at times act against the Tito forces in an understanding with the enemy, but his death sentence was based on internal political considerations rather than on his actual guilt. The name also appears as Mihailović.
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