Jovo Bećir ( sr-cyr, Јово Бећир; 14 September 1870 – 1942) was a Montenegrin brigadier general and a colonel of the

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Biography

Bećir was a brigadier general in the

Royal Montenegrin Army The Royal Montenegrin Army (in Serbian/ Montenegrin: ''Војска Краљевине Црне Горе''; ''Vojska Kraljevine Crne Gore'') or the Army of the Kingdom of Montenegro, was the army of Kingdom of Montenegro. Creation of the army T ...

during the

Montenegrin Campaign The Montenegrin campaign of World War I, in January 1916, was a part of the Serbian campaign, in which Austria-Hungary defeated and occupied the Kingdom of Montenegro, an ally of the Kingdom of Serbia. By January 1916, the Serbian Army had ...

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. On 25 January 1916, he was one of the signatories of the Montenegrin capitulation after the

Battle of Mojkovac The Battle of Mojkovac was a World War I battle fought between 6 and 7 January 1916 near Mojkovac, in today's Montenegro, between the armies of Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Montenegro. It ended with a decisive Montenegrin victory. Prelude ...

. He was a colonel in the

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of the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 to 1929, it was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but the term "Yugoslavia" () h ...

in the

interwar period In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period, also known as the interbellum (), lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II ( ...

. Although retired, he was activated at the beginning of the

Invasion of Yugoslavia The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April War or Operation 25, was a Nazi Germany, German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on 6 April 1941 during World War II. The order for the invasion was put fo ...

in 1941. After the defeat of the Yugoslav forces, he was captured and then released due to the intervention of Queen Jelena, but after he rejected to take part in the

Italian governorate of Montenegro The Italian governorate of Montenegro () existed from October 1941 to September 1943 as an occupied territory under military government of Fascist Italy during World War II. Although the Italians had intended to establish a quasi-independent Mon ...

, he was again captured in late 1941 by Croatian fascist units known as the

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and taken to

Jasenovac concentration camp Jasenovac () was a concentration camp, concentration and extermination camp established in the Jasenovac, Sisak-Moslavina County, village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in occupied Yugoslavia durin ...

where he was killed in 1942.Vojska.net bio
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