Momčilo Đujić
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vojvoda Momčilo Đujić |
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| Native name | Момчило Ђујић |
| Nickname(s) | Father Fire |
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27 February 1907 Kovačić, Knin, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 11 September 1999 (aged 92) San Diego, California, United States |
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| Years of service | 1941–45 |
| Rank | vojvoda (self-appointed) |
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| Battles/wars | World War II in Yugoslavia |
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| Other work | Ravna Gora Movement of Serbian Chetniks |
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Momčilo Đujić (Serbian Cyrillic: Момчилo Ђујић, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [momːt͡ʃiːlo d͡ʑuːjit͡ɕ]; 27 February 1907 – 11 September 1999) was a Serbian Orthodox priest and self-appointed Chetnik commander (Serbo-Croatian: vojvoda, вoјвода) who led a significant proportion of the Chetniks within the northern Dalmatia region of the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. After the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934, he joined the Chetnik Association of Kosta Pećanac. After the invasion of Yugoslavia, he defended local Serbs against the Ustaše regime and collaborated with the Axis powers against the Yugoslav Partisans throughout the remainder of the war as the commander of the Chetnik Dinara Division (Dinarska divizija, Динарска дивизија). He survived the war, surrendering to the British and eventually emigrating to the United States, avoiding several failed extradition attempts by the Yugoslav government, which accused him of being responsible for the deaths of 1,500 people.
Settling in California, Đujić played an important role in Serbian émigré circles and founded the Ravna Gora Movement of Serbian Chetniks alongside other exiled Chetnik fighters. He later retired to San Marcos, where he wrote poems and jokes that were published in both the United States and Serbia. He was instrumental in perpetuating Chetnik ideas in the Yugoslav Wars and controversially appointed Vojislav Šešelj as a Chetnik vojvoda in 1989. In 1998, Đujić said that he regretted awarding the title to Šešelj on account of his involvement with Slobodan Milošević. On 21 May 1998, Biljana Plavšić, President of the Republika Srpska at the time, awarded him the Order of the Star of Karađorđe (First Class). Đujić died at a hospice in San Diego in 1999, aged 92.
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