I am not a Yugoslav nor do I think Milosevic belongs anywhere but behind bars (Serbian ones).
Saying that, the Serbs I feel were justified in both seeking to keep Yugoslavia whole and once that failed then to trying to join their Serbian enclaves to Serbia when it came to some parts of Croatia and Bosnia. At least those areas should have been made autonomous zones with Croatia and Bosnia as a way to ease the fear that animated the Serbs.
I am not familiar with that word. Maybe it means something in the Croation "neospeak." I have never encountered such a word in Serbian.
Chetniks -- Tropoljac gives correct information, but out of context and with a small twist to it. Some chetniks collaborated initially, others only under extreme duress. Reasons for collaboration are numerous -- personal vendettas, warlord mentality, usury, bribery, "pragmatism," exchange of prisoners, bartering, you name it.
But there is an essential difference between chetnik collaboration ustasha cooperation. The chetniks were driven either by greed, opportunism or dire need; ustasha were Nazi allies.
The chetniks of Ravna Gora, were the official Yugoslav Royal Army in fatherland; their commander, Gen. Drazha Mihailovich was Yugoslavia's Defense Minister in office. Yugoslavia's official policy was to resist German occupation but not to cause excesisve civilian causalities. The official policy called for uneasy truce -- Germans controlling cities; chetniks the countryside. German reprisals policy was harsh: 100 executed hostages for each German soldier killed, and 50 executed hostages for each wounded solider. It was a price in Serbian lives, chetniks were not willing to pay. They were ordered to wait for Allies to push Germans back and then go on an offensive, helping the Allies along, just as the French resistance did.
The communists, who didn't annoucne their "uprising" until Soviet Union was attacked, joined chetniks initially but insisted on attacking Germans despite the reprisals policy. The reason for that were Wehrmacht sccesses against the red Army in USSR. Stalin wanted his apparatchiks in Yugoslavia to tie down Germans with fierce resistance -- regardless of causlities, and they did. This was one of the main reasons chetniks broke up with communists -- they weren't fighting a war of liberation for the good of the people, but a revolutionary communist war for the good of Stalin. Their reckless and murderous "heroism" resulted in massacres like the one in Kraguyevats.
Germans had a warrant on Drazha's head. Croatia's Ante Pavelic was Germany's darling. Chetniks were never German allies. The Croats were. There is the essential difference, inspite of some collaboration. But there is NEVER aparallel, comparable, equitable comparison between chetniks and ustashas.
After Yalta, the Allies threw their support to Communists. This drove more and more chetniks to seek any means of survival -- including open collaboration as the only means of fighting the communists. They knew that Germans will be defeated sooner or later and the main Yugoslav enemies were pro-Soviet communists the Allies were supporting whole heartedly.
Evidence of communist collaboration with Germans was also revealed by a one time top Yugoslav communist official -- Kocha Popovich, one of rare Serb communists who came from a wealthy family. He admitted in his memoirs that, for the sake of pragmatism, negotiationgs were heald with the Nazis over bartering for supplies in exchange for prisoners, etc. And, contrary to the fairtale that Germans were their main enemy, it is clear that Tito made defeating the chetniks his primary goal. Most of the war, the communists were dodging Germans and their allies, and more often than not, running for their lives after being encircled -- eight times, and barely pulling out alaive. They were no match for the Wehrmacht; but they could and did engage chetniks on every possible occasion -- and vice versa.