Career
Žižić commanded the famed Drobnjačko-Uskočka brigade of the Montenegrin army during the Battle of Mojkovac, a sacrificial effort by the Montenegrins to stop the Austrian army and allow the safe retreat of Serbian troops towards Albania. Following their arrest, they were both shot dead in the city of Pljevlja, without a trial. Following the war he became the Chief army prosecutor.
Consequent to his refusal to persecute partisans under false accusations related to Inforbiro and Tito"s split with Stalin, general Veljko Žižić was arrested and sent to Goli Otok, an infamous prison on the Adriatic coast.
He was imprisoned there twice, for a total of 12 years, and was the last prisoner to be realeased from lieutenant
