Fehim Musakadić ( sr-cyr, Фехим Мусакадић; ?–d. 1943), ''

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'' Musa (Муса), was a Serbian military officer in

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, Yugoslav reserve major, Sarajevo chief-of-police, and

Chetnik The Chetniks ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Четници, Četnici, ; sl, Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationa ...

commander in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. A Muslim from Herzegovina, he espoused a Serb ethnic identity. Musakadić was born in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its a ...

. He had a brother, Edhem. Musakadić was a member of pro-Serb Muslim organization

Gajret Gajret was a cultural society established in 1903 that promoted Serb identity among the Slavic Muslims of Austria-Hungary (today's Bosnia and Herzegovina). After 1929, it was known as the Serb Muslim Cultural Society. The organization was pro-Ser ...

. Muslims joined the Serbian army in World War I, the majority espousing a Serb identity. Musakadić had deserted the Austro-Hungarian army and joined the Serbian army during the

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. Among notable Muslim soldiers in the Serbian army were Avdo Hasanbegović, Šukrija Kurtović,

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, Fehim Musakadić, Hamid Kukić, Rešid Kurtagić, who all fought as Serbian volunteer officers at the

Salonica front The Macedonian front, also known as the Salonica front (after Thessaloniki), was a military theatre of World War I formed as a result of an attempt by the Allied Powers to aid Serbia, in the autumn of 1915, against the combined attack of German ...

. Musakadić was among the most active in the group of Muslims who were engaged in Yugoslav propaganda on Austro-Hungarian Muslim POWs. He was decorated with the Order of the Star of Karađorđe with Swords and was ranked a

Yugoslav army The Yugoslav People's Army (abbreviated as JNA/; Macedonian and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and bs, Jugoslavenska narodna armija; sl, Jugoslovanska ljudska a ...

reserve

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. Prior to World War II, Musakadić was the Sarajevo chief-of-police. During World War II, few Bosnian Muslims joined the

Chetniks The Chetniks ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Четници, Četnici, ; sl, Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationa ...

. Musakadić joined the Chetniks immediately after the war broke out, and was sent by Chetnik general

Draža Mihailović Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović ( sr-Cyrl, Драгољуб Дража Михаиловић; 27 April 1893 – 17 July 1946) was a Yugoslavs, Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. He was the leader of the Chetniks, Chetnik Detachments ...

to Eastern Bosnia, joining the staff of

Petar Baćović Petar Baćović ( sh-Cyrl, Петар Баћовић; 1898 – April 1945) was a Bosnian Serb Chetnik commander ( sh-Latn, vojvoda, sh-Cyrl, војвода) within occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. From the summer of 1941 until April ...

. He established the

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Muslim Chetnik Battalion. The Muslim Chetnik leaders were

Ismet Popovac Ismet Popovac (; died 21 August 1943) was a Bosnian Muslim lawyer and physician who led a Muslim Chetnik militia known as the Muslim People's Military Organization (MNVO) in Bosnia and Herzegovina during World War II. He was active in pre-war ...

, Mustafa Pašić, and Musakadić. General Mihailović appointed Musakadić the commander of all Muslim Chetniks in Yugoslavia on 25 March 1943. During the war he was the organizer of Herzegovinian Muslim Chetniks. He was a favourite of Mihailović. He was captured in the summer of 1943 by the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод ...

and executed. The village inhabitants of Obalj had informed the Partisans of their whereabouts, who then captured Musakadić and Joca Pantić without struggle.

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