HUNDRED YEARS ANNIVERSARY OF GENOCIDE AND FORCIBLE CONVERSION OF BOSNIAKS AND ALBANIANS COMMITTED BY MONTENEGRO IN PLAV AND GUSINJE
In the years 1912 and 1913, during the first Balkan war, Montenegro occupied Plav and Gusinje, while Monetengro Army killed 1,800 Bosniaks and Albanians. Priests of the Orthodox Church have forcibly converted 12,500 muslims, Bosniaks and Albanians, from the region.
Historical experts and researchers have confirmed that Montenegro committed war crimes and genocide in Plav and Gusinje. That was the seventh genocide committed by Serbs and Montenegrins against Bosniaks. In addition to mass murder of Bosniaks and Albanians, the war criminals have systematically raped women, plunder goods from homes, and exterminated Bosniaks and Albanians of the region.
Direct responsibility for these war crimes bears the leadership of Montenegro led by king Nikola and the Orthodox Church.
Hundred years after this act of gruesome genocide was committed no one from Montenegro apologized or was held responsible for it. Hundred years later, progeny of the victims of this genocide are asking from Montenegro to recognize the genocide, and to respectfully mark the place of genocide with a commemorative monument for victims of genocide in Plav and Gusinje.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2012, – 7:00 pm
Progeny of victims of forcible conversion and genocide committed by Montenegro in Plav and Gusinje will be speaking at the commemorative event
Crime of the century Montenegrin leadership and the Orthodox Church
Commemoration Board: Bosniak and Albanian immigrants from Plav and Gusinje
Conference Center
505 8th Ave 20th Floor (corner 35th str.)
New York, NY 10018
Information: 347 579 6750; 917 416 1191; 646 533 4977;
914 420 7285; 646 879 8419; 347 851 6247
E-mail: genocid.plavgusinje@yahoo.com
Committee to commemorate the victims of genocide in Plav and Gusinje, Islamic Center of Monticello (NY), Bosnian Islamic Cultural Center (NY), The Bosniak-American Community Center of New Jerssey, Bosniak Cultural Community in the United States, The Institute for Research of Genocide Canada, Bosnjaci.Net, Bosniaks Association, Representative of Bosniaks from Sandzak in New York, Bosniak Associations “Minber”, and everybody else who gathered at a memorial service for one hundred years since the genocide commited by Montenegrians towards Bosniaks and Albenians in the muncipialities of Plav and Gusinje. Commemoration had taken place in New York, headquarters of the United Nations, where descendants of genocide survivors made the covenant for remembering and collective memory in the name of truth and justice on genocide for those victims, sending a message to the world in the form of adopted declaration.
DECLARATION OF DESCENDANTS OF THE VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE PLAV – GUSINJE 1912/13
More: Declaration
BOSNIAKS POSITION IN TODAY’S MONTENEGRO IN CONRINUATION OF THE POLICY “TURKISH CONVERTS INVESTIGATION”
More: Discriminations of Bosniaks in todays Monetenegro.
PROCLAMATION OF RAISU-L-ULAMA WITH RESPECT TO THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF GENOCIDE OF THE MUSLIMS IN PLAV AND GUSINJE
