Collaboration during World War II

The Higher State Prosecution launched an investigation into the mass killings in July 2019, and political parties and civic activists called on the authorities to exhume the remains from the cave and identify the victims.

The Humanitarian Law Centre NGO said an appeals court decision to acquit members of the Sima’s Chetniks paramilitary group of killing 27 Roma civilians in 1992 will hinder successful prosecutions in future.

The High Court in Valjevo, Serbia, on Friday rehabilitated a former Chetnik commander Nikola Kalabic, annulling the Communist-era verdict from 1946 which declared him a “national enemy”.

The Higher Prosecutor’s Office in Valjevo told Beta news agency that it would “certainly appeal” the court ruling.

The Higher Court in Valjevo has rehabilitated Nikola Kalabic, commander of the WW2-era Mountain Guard of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland (Chetniks).

The Beta agency said on Friday that it received confirmation of this from the Higher Public Prosecution.

A Serbian court postponed to February its decision on the rehabilitation of WWII Chetnik commander Nikola Kalabic, who was declared a war criminal by the Yugoslav Communist authorities.

The opposition SDS party on Wednesday criticized the city authorities in Belgrade for not removing decorative lights installed for New Year's.

The party said that Belgrade "continues to be decorated even 48 days after the holiday."

"Political will present to work with Wiesenthal Center"

BELGRADE -- Serbia has the political will to cooperate with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which searches for WW2-era war criminals, Efraim Zuroff has told B92.