Serbia in World War II

WASHINGTON - The Washington premiere of the WWII-themed Serbian film The Heroes of Halyard was held at Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

Serbian Ambassador to Washington Marko Djuric said the premiere, held "at the heart of American democracy", commemorated the 80th anniversary of the heroic WWII Operation Halyard, when Serbian farmers rescued close to 500 US airmen.

The local assembly in Serbia’s second city, Novi Sad, has been accused of distorting history for voting to erect a monument to the alleged victims of crimes by Yugoslav Communist Partisan forces.

Speaking in Davos on Friday, the Serbian president said he "did not know what this was about" and had "not seen it."

"If anyone has done anything wrong, we will apologize," Vucic said.

Previously, the daily Danas said that the SNS opened its office at the site of the Staro Sajmiste (Old Fairgrounds) concentration camp, and published a photo of it on the front page.

Serbian Justice Minister Nela Kuburovic says that the country's court are capable of giving a fair trial to Albanian citizen Ismail Morina.

Morina, wanted in Serbia for inciting ethnic and racial hatred, is currently held in Croatia, whose Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that he can be extradited.

US Congressman Ted Poe says his country must not allow the Kremlin to spoil its relations with Serbia.

The co-chair of the Congressional Serbian American Caucus spoke at the US House of Representatives and, according to Voice of America, said that Serbia is "on the path to successful Euro-Atlantic integration, and has nobody on that road who supports it stronger than the US.

Croatia and Serbia agreed that former Croatian detainees can hold a commemoration at a wartime prison camp in Stajicevo, but ex-prisoners claimed Belgrade is blocking prosecutions of those who committed crimes there.

A member of the Jewish Community of Belgrade, which represents the city's Jews, told BIRN on Monday that the organisation would call witnesses to testify at the ongoing rehabilitation hearings about Nedic's active participation in the Holocaust.

From August 1941 to April 1945, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Romas, as well as anti-fascists of many nationalities, were murdered at the death camp known as Jasenovac.

A former detainee of a WWII concentration camp in Belgrade told a court hearing about Nazi-backed puppet government leader Milan Nedic’s proposed rehabilitation that he helped to free her family.

A witness at a rehabilitation hearing for Milan Nedic argued that the Nazi-backed WWII-era puppet government leader helped many Serbs survive the German occupation of the region.