A fight broke out in the Montenegro Parliament which resulted in objectors to a new bill being detained. The controversial act allows the government to confiscate the property of the church.
Protests have broken out in the country as supporters of the Church campagne for religious rights. The property would include churches and monasteries. Montenegro is reported to be the largest eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox church.
Montonegro, formerly a part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with Serbia, became the subject of the Badinter Arbitration Comittee in 1991. The Badinter treaty is said by some to have ended the cold war in Europe.
The u.n. was said to have assisted independence in former states of Yugoslavia, that is Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia and Slovenia during the period of 1990-92. War broke out in 1991 lasting until 2001. Sanctions were imposed against the remaining Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, that is Serbia and Montenegro; reportedly for its support of Serbian Krajina in Croatia and Srpska in Bosnia, who wanted to remain. The Yugoslav People’s Army fought to preserve the unity of Serbs in one state. They retreated in 1992 but Bosnian Serbs continued to fight. Sanctions are believed to have created a crisis. Many non Serbs left according to official documentation. The Washington agreement in 1994, is reported to be a ceasefire agreement between Bosnian and Croatian factions. The majority of Serbs now live in the Republika Srpska.
Montenegro is named from a Venetian era, meaning black mountain, it originally referred to supposedly the mountain and a strip of land beneath it bordering Albania. The remaining republic of Yugoslavia dissolved in 2006. May have been due to sanctions.A referendum for independance in Montenegro was approved by 55.5% of voters. There followed a movement towards elitism. Reported protests beginning February 2019, have been blamed on the Socialist Party.
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