April 27, 2009 6:27 AM
BELGRADE, Serbia-Serbia's government has formed a special commission
to try to locate the grave of a World War II guerrilla leader executed
as a traitor by the Communists.
The location of Dragoljub Draza Mihailovic's grave has been unknown
since postwar Communist authorities executed him 1946 for collaboration
with the Nazi occupiers.
A Chicago-based Serb group recently offered a $100,000 (euro75,500)
reward for help finding the grave.
Mihailovic, a Yugoslav soldier, launched a resistance movement in 1941
against the German occupiers. But he also fought against Communist guerrillas
later in the war.
In 1948, U.S. President Harry Truman posthumously awarded Mihailovic
the Legion of Merit award for his role in rescuing hundreds of U.S. airmen
downed by the Nazis over Serbia.
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