Black Troikas
A Chetnik troika kills its victim in Serbia (June 1943).
Chetniks of a black troika murder a Yugoslav partisan in the Serbian region of Šumadija .
The Black Troikas ( Serbian Црне тројке Crne trojke ; from Russian Troika for "group of three") were three-person terrorist groups of the nationalist Serbian Chetnik associations (so-called " Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland "). Most of the time they murdered political or religious opponents with a knife, deterring them. The Black Troikas were under the command of General Dragoljub Draža Mihailović , who personally put the victims on death lists. The victims often included functionaries and actual or supposed sympathizers of the Serbian collaboration government and the Yugoslav partisan movement .
Known members
- Milorad Vukojičić (1917–1945), Serbian Orthodox priest, sentenced to death by the Yugoslav authorities and executed, canonized in 2005
Known victims
- Vojko Čvrkić (1898–1942), former Yugoslav member of parliament
- Miloš Masalović (–1944), head of cabinet of the Serbian collaboration government under Milan Nedić
- Aleksandar Ceka Djordjević (–1944), Deputy Interior Minister of the Serbian collaboration government under Milan Nedić
- Kosta Pećanac (1879–1944), Serbian Chetnik leader
swell
- The Trial of Dragoljub-Draža Mihailović: Stenographic Record and Documents from the Trial of Dragoljub-Draža Mihailović . Belgrade 1946, p. 54 u. 351-356 .
- Jozo Tomasevich: The Chetniks: War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945 . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1975, ISBN 0-8047-0857-6 , pp. 259 f .