He was a Chetnik lieutenant colonel and collaborator of the occupiers in the Second World War. In the summer of 1941, he joined Draža Mihailović’s Chetnik movement. For the next three years, as the commander of the Chetnik forces, he led the fights against the partisan forces in Montenegro and Sandzak. He cooperated with the occupier in operations on the Neretva, Drina, and the winter offensive of 1943/1944. In February 1944 he went to Cairo and then to London. In agreement with the Yugoslav refugee government and the representatives of Britain, he returned to the country at the end of May and organized the so-called independent national resistance group JVUO, which was supposed to distance itself from Mihailović, led the fight against the Germans and ensured the restoration of the monarchy in post-war Yugoslavia.
In the fall of 1944, he led the fight against the Germans but was soon arrested by partisans. After the war, due to a series of crimes against the civilian population (the most notorious of which was the massacre of Muslims from Pljevlja, Čajniče, and Foča, where thousands of women, the elderly, and small children were killed and members of the resistance movement. Sentenced to death and executed in 1945 in Belgrade.
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