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A video of the Chetnik gathering. Source: Al Jazeera

Around 100 people gathered in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad on Tuesday to commemorate the day when Dragoljub Mihailovic, the leader of the Serbian World War II nationalist Chetnik movement, was caught in 1946.

The participants from both Bosnia and Serbia, clad in Chetnik-like uniforms and the movement’s original insignia, laid a wreath at a monument to fallen Serb soldiers from the 1990s war.

They then staged a parade, flew the Serbian flag and played the Serbian national anthem.

One of the participants, Misa Vesic from the western Serbian town of Valjevo, told Al Jazeera that he hopes that their children will “march like this; that they don’t take up arms,” and that “no children on this planet and in this region die anymore”.

The annual gathering on March 13 is organised by an association called the Ravna Gora Chetnik movement, the name by which Mihailovic’s Chetniks were known.

During the gathering in 2016, a reporter for the regional N1 TV was attacked by one of the participaints at the event.

Mihailovic, who was also known as General Draza, was sentenced to death in 1946 by a Yugoslav court for high treason and collaboration with Nazi Germany.

He was rehabilitated in 2015 by a Belgrade court which ruled that his trial was “political and ideological” and made serious legal errors.

During WWII, his forces, known as the Chetniks, committed large-scale war crimes and other atrocities, including crimes against Bosniaks in the Visegrad region.