MIKHAILOVIC’S TRIAL
SERBIAN PEASANTS’ EVIDENCE
(Rec. 8.30 p.m.) BELGRADE, June 27. “Five Serbian peasants testified at the trial of General Mikhailovic and others accused of war crimes that the Chetnik forces . which General Mikhailovic led through the village of Bolech on the night of December 26, 1943, with cries of, ‘We fight for King and country against the Communists,’ massacred more than 60 villagers,” says the Belgrade pondent of the Associated Press.
Two grave-diggers said that during two and a half years of German occupation they were eye-witnesses to mass executions and burials of nearly 20,000 Jugoslav citizens. One said that he saw six to seven thousand persons shot in a camp near Belgrade, and the other said that he had handled between 7000 and 8000 corpses, not counting the estimated 12,000 victims of gas chambers.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24914, 29 June 1946, Page 7
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