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Songs In 'Chetnik' Celebration In Bosnia Strike Wrong Note, Spark Probe

For years, people have gathered in March in the eastern Bosnian city of Visegrad to mark the capture of Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, the controversial Serbian general who led the World War II nationalist Chetnik movement, some of whom collaborated with Nazi forces.

This year, they went too far.

The 200 or so who met on March 10 paraded with some singing songs that included lines such as "there will be hell, the River Drina will be bloody, here come the Chetniks from the Serb mountains."

Read more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/bosnia-chetnik-songs-mihailovic-investigation/29817533.html

I was not aware of this. I did know that some have claimed for a long time in Balkan history that some hard-line Serbs have sought a "Greater Serbia"; and that has been a point of contention.