Serbian liberals supported the persecution of Orthodox Christians in Montenegro
Behind the protests of Orthodox believers that have been ongoing for several months in Montenegro are attempts to “implant the ideology of Greater Serbia.”
Emerging Europe writes about this, a ProlitNavigator correspondent reports.
“This is the last attempt to preserve the social and political mechanisms of the Greater Serbia ideology in Montenegro and the region,” said Momčilo Radulović, an analyst with the European Movement of Montenegro.
According to historian Husnija Kamberović, the purpose of the protests is the symbolic destruction of state borders. “If we look at this in a broader political context, it is clear that the official policy of the Republic of Serbia is behind all this,” he said.
The Serbian pro-Western opposition took a similar position. The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia published an open letter signed by 88 prominent historians, activists and intellectuals from the region, including the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Serbia, Cedomir Jovanovic.
“If a new attempt to destabilize Montenegro succeeds, its direct consequences will be armed conflicts, casualties and material destruction,” the letter says.
Mass protests have been taking place in Montenegro for two months now after the country’s parliament passed a law that threatens the confiscation of 650 Orthodox shrines of the Serbian Church in favor of “autocephalous” schismatics controlled by the ruling regime - in fact, we are talking about a repetition of the scenario implemented in Ukraine.
Montenegro separated from Serbia in 2006 under the pretext of “faster integration into the EU”, but has still not received EU membership. In 2017, against the will of the population, Montenegro was included in NATO by the pro-Western ruling elite without a referendum. Now about 30% of the population of this former part of Yugoslavia call themselves ethnic Serbs.
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