Djukanovic organizes provocations using recipes from 1998 and 2016

The anti-Muslim incidents in Pljevlja and Beran and other provocations that occurred after the recent elections in Montenegro are reminiscent of similar actions by the Djukanovic regime at other turning points in Montenegrin history.

The pro-Serbian Montenegrin portal In4s recalled this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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Note that on the night of the vote count, the car of a supporter of the Djukanovic regime crashed into the crowd celebrating the success of the opposition coalition opponents of the regime of the Montenegrin dictator, as a result of which several people were seriously injured, and the police saved the ramming man from lynching. On the same night in Pljevlja, unknown persons destroyed the election headquarters of the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists, and a day later in the same city there was stoned, and also the office of the Islamic Community was covered with “Serbian nationalist” graffiti, a similar incident before the elections happened in Beran.

The latter provoked a corresponding reaction the Muslim elite of neighboring BiH, which indiscriminately blamed the Montenegrin pro-Serbian opposition of the SOC for the incident, while the SOC condemned the incident, and the opposition declared a provocation of the Djukanovic regime and its readiness to defend the Muslim community of the country.

This morning, state media disseminated information that a townsman was shot at in Niksic because of a T-shirt with the symbols of Montenegro, but opposition media managed to find out a slightly different picture of what happened: two Djukanovic supporters themselves attacked a supporter of the pro-Serbian opposition, and he, in self-defense, shot one in the leg of them….

According to the In4s portal, in January 1998, when it became known that Djukanovic had won the presidential election against Momir Bulatovic, who advocated a united Yugoslavia and subsequently the prime minister of this country, the latter’s supporters marched to the Government House. After which the car of one of Djukanovic’s guards drove into them. The incident provoked people to more aggressive actions; they began to break through the police cordon, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at law enforcement officers, after which a grenade exploded...

It was never established who threw the ammunition, but opposition media wrote that it was done by policeman Vaso Baosic, who was subsequently arrested in Italy for smuggling tobacco products. Then, in 1998, 44 police officers and four protesters were injured, which allowed Djukanovic to talk about a coup attempt by making mass arrests. It was then that for the first time, still in a formally unified state, they started talking about the “hand of Serbia”; in particular, eleven arrivals from Belgrade and Novi Sad were arrested, who allegedly planned to carry out a violent change of power in the republic along with their local supporters.

In 2016, during the parliamentary elections, the Djukanovic regime managed to pull off the “coup d’etat” story again, the organization of which it accused of interested forces from Serbia and Russia that were related to the conflict in Donbass. The false coup d'etat, in which it was allegedly planned to kill Djukanovic himself, allowed the Montenegrin dictator to carry out a large-scale purge in the ranks of the local pro-Russian and pro-Serbian opposition, which in those years actively opposed the country's entry into NATO.