"Breakthrough in search for General Mihailovich's grave"

www.b92.net ^ | September 3, 2009 | FoNet / Vecernje Novosti

[Ravnagora]

BELGRADE -- The military intelligence services have submitted information to the State Commission that General Dragoljub Mihailovich is buried on Ada Ciganlija.

According to the State Commission on Establishing the Truth about the Murder of Dragoljub Mihailovich, digging will shortly begin next to the gates of a former prison on Ada as part of the search for Mihailovich’s remains, writes daily Novosti.

“This is the first time that a state body has submitted tangible knowledge of the execution and burial of General Mihailovich. The conditions have therefore been created to begin excavations at that location,“ one member of the commission told the daily.

The commission said, according to Novosti, that all information received to date from the intelligence services (BIA), MUP, the Military Archives and the Archive of Yugoslavia had yielded little in the search for Mihailovich's’s final resting place, and that the information from the military intelligence services was a major breakthrough.

The place where the Commander of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland is believed to be buried is right in front of a monument that marks the site where a prison for political dissidents was located before and during the Second World War.

The site in question, next to a bike hire shop and which now features an arrangement of red roses, is, according to certain earlier testimonies, the place where Mihailovich, together with seven other prisoners, was executed and buried on July 17, 1946.

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[Ravnagora]

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Avenge the foul murder of Drazha Michailovich!!

(The reasons why are, like much of Balkan politics, too obscure and tribal to go into on FR.)

[Slump Tester]

For the unaware:

General Mihailovich: A Serbian National Hero and Patriot who cared for American Troops like they were his own sons.

[Bokababe]

"Avenge the foul murder of Drazha Michailovich!! (The reasons why are, like much of Balkan politics, too obscure and tribal to go into on FR.)"

That's silly. There's no "avenging Drazha Michailovich" -- Tito the communist who had him killed, died in 1980.

But Mihailovich helped save the lives of over 500 American airmen during WWII, posthumously was awarded the US Legion of Merit (which was classified as "secret" by the US State Department for over 20 years), and was buried in an unmarked grave. They've been looking for his grave ever since.

There have been more than a few non-Serbs following this story here on FR.

[TopQuark]

"too obscure and tribal to go into on FR"

That's illogical and hardly fair.

[Ravnagora]

Actually, Free Republic has been OUTSTANDING in allowing the Mihailovich story to see the light of day. I’ve been very grateful for that, and I’m sure others are as well.

The most significant thing about all of this is that General Mihailovich’s homeland of Serbia, the country he fought and died for, is FINALLY doing the right thing by one of her greatest sons.

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[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

(The reasons why are, like much of Balkan politics, too obscure and tribal to go into on FR.)

Where are you getting this idea from?

[SQUID]

Sound like you know less than nothing on this subject and the region. Perhaps you should consider another subject like Homosexual Agenda.