Убиство браће Новаковић 1907. године, судска истрага и скупштинска дебата поводом овог случаја (утицај војске на политику)
Murder of Novaković Brothers in 1907, Criminal Investigation and Parliamentary Debate regarding this Case (Military and its Influence on Politics)

Summary/Abstract: Quelling of the so called “counter-conspiracy” movement marked the temporary victory of officer-conspirers responsible for the May 1903 coup d’état and assassination of Obrenović royal couple. In years 1906-1907 Nikola Pašić and his cabinet found interest in cooperating with conspirers and managed to suppress opposition coming from the part of Serbian officers corps which were against influences on politics coming from the nonconstitutional elements. Captain Milan Novaković became leader of this movement although he spent two years in prison. Immediately after return fron his imprisoment je founded Society for legal solution of conspirers question which aimed to remove all conspirers from public life and punish them for assassination and coup d’etat from 1903. Political constellation, however, prevented this endeavor to end successfully. Novaković brothers were arrested under false accusation and subsequently murdered. According to the available documents describing attitudes of Serbian officials it can be concluded that they were murdered for their political engagement. Initialy Minister of interior issued official statement which stated that brothers killed each other. Soon after he denied this statement. Whole affair was taken of the agenda by simple vote in National parliament. Novaković affair happened in the middle of important events which influenced not only the Balkans but Europe and the rest of the world as well. Their fate was unjustufuly put aside. This murder never reached judicial conclusion while even today no one conluded that Novaković brothers payed with their lives to do what Pašić and Prince regent Aleksandar Karađorđević managed to do on Salonika trial in 1917 – to put an end on military influencing Serbian politics.

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