YUGOSLAV WAR CRIMES

Chronicle (Levin), 11 June 1946, Page 5

YUGOSLAV WAR CRIMES

Press Assn.

Collaborationists On Trial MIKHAILOVITCH INDICTED

By Telegrayh

-Covyright

Received Tuesday, 11 a.m. BELGRADE, June 10. General Draja MiKiiailovitch was greeted witn nisses and boos when he entered the fioodlit courtroom j for trial on charges of collaboration I with Germany and Italy and other I war crimes. One thousand specta- j tors pacKed the court, inciuding , / lournansts and photographers irom ; * Jyu agencies. MiKhailovitch was ' Lressed in a plain brown uniform, ' ana was wearing heavy army ooots. j On trial witn Mikhailovitch are twenty-iour tormer Ministers and politicians, charged with coliaoora- ; tion and other crimes. All Repubiics and autonomous re- 1 gions in £ ugoslavia have sent groups | of ooservers. Arrangements have ' been made to give the trial a maximum oi piiDucity. Official inter-! preters are transiating tne evidence inio Engiish, Russian and French. , The charges against Mikhailo- - vitcn are, hrstly, raising the (JhetniK Or gainsauion, caneu the Yugosiav Army in tne homeiand; secondly, using the orgamsation to stirie tne lioeiation struggie oi the Y'ugosiav people; and, tnndly, with comiiiuting counciess war crimes of all ( uescriptions. 1'iie aetailed allegations in the 600u-word inaictment inciuded that MiKhaiiovitch nact personany cornmanaea tne CnetniKs against tne Hurusans, nad coiiaboratea wiui tne Germans and ltanans smce 1041, haa co-operaiea with the Quisling Neaiten uovernment in Serbia ana haa approved atrocities and measures oi extermmation against tne Oommunists. 'mere -was a Partisan solclier witln a tommy-gun bemnd each aefendant. lviikhailovitch listened stolidly as the inaictment was read, occasion-, any strukmg his thicic, greying Otara. rie gave his occupauon as "General oi one Army." _ {