Court rehabilitates Chetnik commander Nikola Kalabic

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.

Judge Dragan Obradovic found during the court process - launched by Kalabic's granddaughter Vesna Kalabic - that seven decision made by the State Commission for Determining War Crimes of Occupiers and their Helpers in the Second World War were null and void.

These decisions pertained to Kalabnic and were brought from April until October 1945.

The court also found null and void a decision of the District Court in Mionica, dated September 11, 1946, which ordered the confiscation of Kalabic's immovable assets - along with the legal consequences of these decisions.

"The rehabilitated person Nikola...