The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) called the Belgrade city police to ban on what it said is a neo-Nazi gathering in the Serbian capital scheduled for Saturday, February 4.

Zentropa Serbia, which calls itself a nationalist organization, said it would organize the gathering to commemorate the death of Nazi collaborator Serbian Royal Army General Milan Nedic who, YIHR recalled, headed the collaborationist government in occupied Serbia. Nedic is a known anti-Semite. While he was in power, the Nazis declared Serbia the first country in Europe rid of its Jewish population.

YIHR called top state officials to clearly condemn gatherings that celebrate Nazism and anti-Semitism, spread racial hatred and glorify WW 2 collaborators.

“The portrayal of a Quisling as the savior of the Serb people is unacceptable after his governments introduced racial laws and conducted a policy of segregation and persecution of the Jewish and Roma populations and committed brutal war crimes against sympathizers of the Partisan movement across Serbia,” YIHR said in a press release. It recalled the series of assaults against anti-fascists and the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Belgrade.