The Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina (DSHV), the political party of the Croatian minority in Serbia, on Tuesday, condemned the rehabilitation of Chetnik commander Dragutin Keserović and warned of "scandalous" revisionist processes in Serbia.

Belgrade High Court rehabilitated Colonel Dragutin Keserović, commander of a Yugoslav Army operations group in Serbia, who was executed by firing squad on 17 August 1945.

“The rehabilitation of a Chetnik commander is unacceptable to us, and we fear that it will give rise to a feeling of uncertainty among ethnic minorities in Serbia,” the DSHV said in a statement.

The DSHV said that this is a scandalous decision because Keserović was a warlord who collaborated with other fascist forces in occupied Serbia and who was convicted after the Second World War also because of his cooperation with Milan Nedić, the head of the pro-Nazi government in Serbia and one o the architects of the Holocaust in occupied Serbia.

The DSHV said that the rehabilitation of Dragutin Keserović marks the continuation of revisionist processes in Serbia that cause a feeling of fear and unease among the Croats in Serbia.

“We as the party of the Croatian community in Serbia will never accept such views on history because they insult the victims among our own ethnic kin and our compatriots from other ethnic groups who were killed because of the Chetnik ideology,” the DSHV said.

The rehabilitation of Chetnik leaders in Serbia began in 2004 when the National Assembly passed a law equating the rights of members of Chetnik forces with those of Partisan fighters from the Second World War.

In mid-May 2015, Belgrade High Court rehabilitated the most notorious Chetnik leader, General Draža Mihailović. He was convicted and executed by firing squad in 1946 for war crimes and collaboration with occupying forces.