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Broadcasted on Radio France Internationale (RFI), Paris, France

In July 1991, Croatia declares its independence and enters in war against the Yugoslav Federation, reduced to Serbia and Montenegro. At the height of the conflict, the Montenegrin Federal troops, partners of Serbia, bombard Dubrovnik and other Dalmatian coastal cities.
In June 2000, Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović excuses himself for the role of Montenegro during the Croatian conflict from 1991 to 1995: “On my behalf and the citizens of Montenegro, I want to present excuses to the citizens of Croatia and particularly to those of the area of Dubrovnik for all the sufferings and the property damages inflicted by the population of Montenegro.”

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Following is the audio record in French [1] and the text of the message broadcasted in 1991 on Radio France Internationale (RFI), Paris, France by Prince Nicolas Petrovic Njegos:

Like all men of goodwill, I am upset by the suffering of men and families involved in this war, and I wish to help them. Nikola Petrovic Njegos, the Prince who does not want to be king
If there are men for whom my name means something, that they listen to me and try today, and tomorrow, to stop this foolish civil war.
This is not a war which requires courage and generosity, but a war in which kill, and be kill, is a shame.
Contribute by your personal example to let know that it is a shame conflict. Do not take part in it!
I would like to add something which is a direct address to my brothers, the Montenegrins. No civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Croatia and anywhere else in Yugoslavia cannot be their war.
I fear that this generation of Montenegrins would pour his blood in vain, and dishonour the glorious past of their State.

Radio France Internationale

[1] With our warmest thanks to Mrs. Emilie Blanchet from the Agency Interscoop, Paris, France who, by authorizing us to work on the numeric file of Mrs. Anne Georget’s documentary film, “The man who did not want to be king”, offered us the possibility to document this article with an audio record.

Audio credit: © Interscoop/Anne Georget 1995.