|
| serviceyears = 1941–45 | rank = ''vojvoda'' (self-appointed) | branch = | commands = | unit = | battles = World War II in Yugoslavia | awards = | relations = | laterwork = Ravna Gora Movement of Serbian Chetniks }} Momčilo Đujić (, ; 27 February 1907 – 11 September 1999) was a Serbian Orthodox priest and self-appointed Chetnik commander (, вoјвода) who led a significant proportion of the Chetniks within the northern Dalmatia region of the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. After the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934, he joined the Chetnik Association of Kosta Pećanac. After the invasion of Yugoslavia, he defended local Serbs against the Ustaše regime and collaborated with the Axis powers against the Yugoslav Partisans throughout the remainder of the war as the commander of the Chetnik Dinara Division (''Dinarska divizija'', Динарска дивизија). He survived the war, surrendering to the British and eventually emigrating to the United States, avoiding several denied extradition attempts by the Yugoslav government, who accused him of being responsible for the deaths of 1,500 people. Settling in California, Đujić played an important role in Serbian émigré circles and founded the Ravna Gora Movement of Serbian Chetniks alongside other exiled Chetnik fighters. He later retired to San Marcos, where he wrote poems and jokes that were published in both the United States and Serbia. He was instrumental in perpetuating Chetnik ideas in the Yugoslav Wars and controversially appointed Vojislav Šešelj as a Chetnik ''vojvoda'' in 1989. In 1998, Đujić said that he regretted awarding the title to Šešelj on account of his involvement with Slobodan Milošević. On 21 May 1998, Biljana Plavšić, President of the Republika Srpska at the time, awarded him the Order of the Star of Karađorđe (First Class). Đujić died at a hospice in San Diego in 1999, aged 92. ==Early life, education and priesthood== Momčilo Đujić was born in the village of Kovačić, near Knin, on 27 February 1907. He was the oldest of five children born to Rade and Ljubica Đujić (''née'' Miloš). The family was of Bosnian origin. Rade had moved to Kovačić with his disabled veteran father, Glišo, and his brother, Nikola, in the late 1880s and lived off his father's Austro-Hungarian Army pension for a time. Ljubica hailed from the village of Ljubač, southeast of Knin. Shortly after his marriage to Ljubica, Rade established himself as a successful agricultural worker. The couple went on to have three sons and two daughters. Đujić's mother originally intended to name him Simo, after his uncle. Đujić's father disliked the name and, having been raised listening to the ''gusle'' and reciting Serbian epic poetry, named his son after Momchil, a 14th-century brigand in the service of Serbian Emperor Dušan the Mighty. Đujić finished primary school in 1918, and graduated as the best student in his class. Between 1920 and 1924, he attended lower gymnasium in Knin. After a two-year pause, he began attending the higher gymnasium in Šibenik but did not graduate. In 1929, he began attending the Serbian Orthodox seminary in Sremski Karlovci, graduated in 1931 and was ordained a priest two years later. He was assigned to the Orthodox parish in Strmica, near Kovačić. Shortly after, he married Zorka Dobrijević-Jundžić, the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Bosansko Grahovo. The two were married in the Church of St. George in Knin, where Đujić had been baptised as an infant. Businessman Jovo Jelić and Reverend Mirko Sinobad acted as witnesses. Đujić's first child, Siniša, was born in 1934. In 1935, the couple received twins (a son named Radomir and a daughter named Radojka). Đujić and his family were relatively wealthy by the standards of Depression-era Yugoslavia. Although a sizeable number of parishioners were not particularly religious and only attended church three or four times per year, Đujić earned a monthly salary of 1,000 dinars, and received numerous gifts from locals. He also had a poultry farm, and owned a property which produced about of wheat annually. Although most of the inhabitants of Strmica were impoverished, Đujić's home was always filled with food. Due to his wealth, Đujić became the most influential person in the village. He sought to use his money and influence to help the Serb peasants in the Dalmatian Hinterland. In 1934, he organised the construction of a cultural centre in Strmica, financed and oversaw the irrigation of farmland west of Mračaj and approved the reconstruction of a pair of church bells on the Church of St. John the Baptist. The reconstruction of the church bells, which had been destroyed by Austro-Hungarian artillery in 1916, was done with money donated by the Yugoslav government and greatly improved his reputation among the local population, though Đujić's critics accused him of misappropriating funds. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Momčilo Đujić」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|