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Pavle Đurišić

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/February 13, 2023 by Gog the Mild (talk) 16:54, 3 January 2023 (UTC)



Pavle Đurišić (1909–1945) was a Royal Yugoslav Army officer who became a Chetnik leader during World War II. He was a commander of the popular uprising against the Italians in occupied Montenegro in July 1941, then collaborated with the Italians against the Yugoslav Partisans. On 13 February 1943, he wrote to the Chetnik supreme commander, Draža Mihailović, reporting that his men had killed about 1,200 Bosnian Muslim combatants and about 8,000 women, children and the elderly in Montenegro and eastern Bosnia. Soon after, he 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. He was killed by the Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia near Banja Luka after he was captured in April 1945.
 * Most recent similar article(s): The last WWII Chetnik bio to run was Momčilo Đujić on October 1, 2022
 * Main editors: Peacemaker67 and Potočnik (semi-retired from Wikipedia)
 * Promoted: August 28, 2012, first ran as TFA on April 13, 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: An article on Đurišić exists on eleven other Wikipedia language sites, it has been over eight years since it first ran, and it is being nominated for February 13 with quite a different blurb emphasis from its first run (the first was in the month of his death in 1945), this nomination is for the 80th anniversary of a report he wrote into massacres of civilians his troops carried out in 1943.
 * Support as nominator. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 22:53, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:59, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Vida0007 (talk) 11:51, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support Hog Farm Talk 16:39, 21 December 2022 (UTC)