Belgrade Higher Court on Thursday dismissed as groundless the request of Milan Nedic’s family to rehabilitate the wartime leader who headed a puppet government in Nazi-occupied Serbia. The decision may be appealed within the next 30 days.
Rehabilitation hearings began in December 2015 on the request of Nedic’s family. They wanted the court to declare Nedic a victim of political persecution by Yugoslavia’s former Communist authorities.
They also wanted the court to annul the Yugoslav court’s decision to strip Nedic of his civil rights and confiscate his property.
Over the course of the trial, the court heard testimonies from several historians and reviewed thousands of pages of contemporary documents.
The process attracted controversies as several experts pointed out that Serbian law does not allow the rehabilitation of persons who collaborated with the Nazis.
Far-right groups as well as anti-Fascists and leftists occassionally gathered in front of the Higher Court to show support or opposition to the rehabilitation demand.
Nedic headed a so-called Government of National Salvation, a puppet administration in Serbia during World War II that operated from August 1941 to October 1944.
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