Serbia – Hundreds of Serbs and Jews rallied on Sunday in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second largest city, and in the capital Belgrade against the acquittal of a Hungarian man suspected of involvement in a World War Two massacre.
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A Hungarian court last week cleared Kepiro (97) of involvement in the January 1942 Novi Sad massacre of more than 1,000 civilians, mainly Serbs and Jews, due to lack of evidence. The verdict is subject to appeal.
“This verdict was a disgraceful decision, shameful for survivors, victims and mankind,” Veljic said.
Kepiro, a Hungarian national, served as a gendarme during the war, when parts of Serbia were occupied by troops from Hungary, then allied with Nazi Germany. The Novi Sad massacre was ordered in retaliation for attacks by communist partisans.
Kepiro was accused of being involved in a series of events in which people were rounded up and sent to their deaths before a firing squad or were pushed under the ice of the Danube river.
Kepiro was also charged with being a member of a squad that murdered people in their homes.
“No one knew what they were preparing, they just rounded up peaceful people from their homes and killed them all,” said Ljubisa Lekic (87) who lost her father and two uncles in the atrocities.
Kepiro lived in Argentina from 1948 to 1996. He was spotted in 2006 in Budapest by the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center, which informed Hungarian authorities.
The Serbs were allied with the Jews in the partisan fight against the Nazi’s, including the Croat Nazis and the Bosnian Muslim Nazis.
The Serbs were allied with the Jews in the partisan fight against the Nazi’s, including the Croat Nazis and the Bosnian Muslim Nazis.
I agree with this. That’s why I was so upset when the U.S. bombed Serbia and took the side of Croatia and Albania in the war that took place during the 90’s. The Serbs should have been left alone; the U.S. came down on the wrong side of that war; another example of the U.S. being on the wrong side of a conflict.