Sep 3, 2009, 11:50 GMT
Belgrade - Serbian authorities on Thursday denied media reports that the approximate location of the grave of Serbian World War Two guerrilla leader Dragoljub Draza Mihailovic has been discovered more than 60 years after his death.
Mihailovic, the leader of the Serbian nationalist movement in World War Two which fought against first German and then Allied troops, was tried by the Communists on July 17, 1946 and executed along with seven followers.
The Communists, who took power after the war, never revealed the location of the grave, fearing pilgrimages of his supporters.
The daily Novosti on Thursday reported that the national Search Commission had received information from the Military Intelligence Agency on the location of Mihailovic's grave.
'This is the first time that any state agency has given us concrete data on the liquidation and burial of general Mihailovic. Now we can start digging up the location,' the daily quoted one unnamed member of the Commission as saying.
The Commission however, in a statement to Beta news agency, denied this report calling it 'disinformation which will not contribute to determining relevant facts.'
'The Commission made some progress in the search for Draza Mihailovic grave, as well as searching for other unknown historical data on his arrest. These data will be brought to public in the following days,' the Commission said in a statement.
Novosti quoted information from military intelligences stating that Mihailovic had been buried at the entrance of the popular Belgrade leisure area Ada Ciganlija, where a prison for political prisoners had once stood.
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