Stevan Moljević

[1] He finished primary school in the town and later joined Young Bosnia, a revolutionary movement which aimed to unite all South Slavs into one common state.

He was arrested by Austro-Hungarian authorities in 1910 after a member of Young Bosnia attempted to assassinate Marijan Varešanin, the region's governor.

[2] Moljević obtained a law degree at the University of Zagreb before moving to Banja Luka, where he worked as an attorney prior to the outbreak of World War II.

[1] Moljević left Banja Luka on 10 April 1941, the day that the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was proclaimed, and fled to Montenegro.

[4] This enlarged Serbian state was to include Central Serbia, Vojvodina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Slavonia and northern Albania, as well as parts of Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary.

[14] The Central Committee advised Mihailović on matters of domestic and international politics and maintained liaison with civilian followers of the Chetniks in Serbia and other regions.

[14] Moljević wrote to Vasić in December 1941 and outlined his plan for the cleansing of Yugoslavia of all non-Serbian elements by Serbian refugees.

[15] In February 1942, Vasić received a letter from Moljević concerning the creation of a Greater Serbia stretching to Dalmatia and the Adriatic coast.

[21] Moljević was arrested by the Yugoslav Partisan forces on 23 September 1945[22] and tried alongside Mihailović and twenty-two others in the summer of 1946 on grounds of collaborationism and organized insurrection.

[2] In 2019 a group of historians published a book authored by Moljević, based on his handwritten scripts, titled "Ravna Gora u svetlu i magli" (lit.

[ 25 ] Stevan Moljević with Draža Mihailović during their trial