Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 13, 2023

Pavle Đurišić (1909–1945) was a Royal Yugoslav Army officer who became a Chetnik leader during World War II. He was a commander of a popular uprising in July 1941 against the Italians who occupied Montenegro, then collaborated with the Italians against the Yugoslav Partisans. On 13 February 1943, he wrote to Draža Mihailović, the Chetnik supreme commander, reporting that his men had killed about 1,200 Bosnian Muslim combatants and 8,000 women, children and elderly people in Montenegro and eastern Bosnia. Soon after, Đurišić and his troops participated in an anti-Partisan offensive alongside Italian troops. Captured by the Germans in May 1943, he escaped and was recaptured. Released after the Italian surrender, he began collaborating with the Germans and the Serbian puppet government. In 1944 he was decorated by the German commander in Montenegro. Đurišić was killed by the Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia near Banja Luka after he was captured in April 1945.