Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: independent state of croatia - honorific prefix: lieutenant colonel - native name: - death date: april 1945 - allegiance: kingdom flag.svg chetniks -lrb- 1941 -- 45 -rrb- of yugoslavia yugoslavia -lrb- -- 1941 -rrb- chetniks - commands: chief in herzegovina of staff to supreme chetnik command chetnik detachments - nickname: branko zare dizdar sobolevski 1999 310 - birth date: 1907 - serviceyears: -- 1945 - name: zaharije ostojic - image size: 180 - image: zaharije ostojic1.jpg - birth place: gluhi do , near bar principality of montenegro - rank: lieutenant colonel Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of zaharije ostojic .
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zaharije ostojic -lrb- ; 1907 -- april 1945 -rrb- was a montenegrin serb military officer who served as the chief of the operational , organisational and intelligence branches of the chetnik supreme command led by draza mihailovic in yugoslavia during world war ii .he was a major in the yugoslav royal air force prior to the axis invasion of yugoslavia , and was involved in the coup that deposed prince paul of yugoslavia on 27 march 1941 .after the coup , he escorted prince paul to exile in greece , and was in cairo at the time of the invasion in april .in september 1941 , he was landed on the italian-occupied montenegrin coast along with a british special operations executive -lrb- soe -rrb- liaison officer and two companions .he escorted the soe officer to the territory of the military commander in serbia and introduced him to the yugoslav partisan leader josip broz tito then mihailovic .ostojic soon became mihailovic 's chief of staff , and after the german attempt to capture the chetnik leader during operation mihailovic in december 1941 , brought the chetnik supreme staff to montenegro where they were re-united with mihailovic in june 1942 .during the remainder of 1942 , ostojic launched a counter-attack against ustase troops of the independent state of croatia returning to the eastern bosnian town of foca where they were expected to continue their genocidal anti-serb policies .as many as 2,000 local muslims were subsequently killed in the town by forces under ostojic 's command .ostojic later oversaw large-scale massacres of civilians and burning of muslim villages in the border region between montenegro and the sandzak .while the chetniks were an anti-axis movement in their long-range goals and did engage in marginal resistance activities for limited periods , they also carried out almost throughout the war a tactical or selective collaboration with the occupation authorities against the partisans .the chetnik movement adopted a policy of collaboration with the axis powers , and engaged in...