‘Immortal Regiment’ marches on Victory Day with Cossacks
N1 Info 09.05.2019 | Beta N1 Belgrade
The so-called ‘Immortal Regiment’ marched through the central street of the southern city of Nis on Thursday, marking the Victory Day, led by Cossacks, bikers and retired general Vladimir Lazarevic, sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment by The Hague Tribunal in 2009 and released in 2015, after serving the two-thirds of the jail term.
He was found guilty of command responsibility for war crimes against Kosovo Albanians during the 1988-1999 war in the then Serbia’s province. Several hundred people joined the ‘Immortal Regiment’, among whom were the WW II survivors, their descendants, members of the Army of Serbia and the police force, humanitarians and many others. "The message from our march today is – don’t forget the dead heroes and victims in defence of the country, and
