the UVF a pro-Israeli group in opposition to the pro-Palestine stance of republicans. In the seventies, VMO gained international attention by repatriating the corpses of former collaborators of World War Two to their homeland. In Austria, a VMO commando (Operation Brevier) claimed to have dug up the corpse of the priest Cyriel Verschaeve, a leading figure of the collaboration, and buried it again in Flemish soil. The dead bodies of Staf De Clercq, the former leader of the Vlaams Nationaal Verbond (Operation Delta), and Anton Mussert, the former Dutch NSB leader (Operation Wolfsangel), were also dug up and reburied in Flanders. Overview of the alleged crimes 1978 December: attack on the Polish soccer player Włodzimierz Lubański in Lokeren. 1979 February: riots with the police after an anti-immigrant demonstration in Schilde. April: attack on a francophone school in Mortsel. May: fire-bombing of a Turkish bar in Antwerp. June: fire-bombing of the car of a francophone inhabitant of Voeren. August: training camp in Germany together with the terrorist Hofmann Group. October: attack on the town hall of 's-Gravenvoeren. 1980 February: attack on a socialist book store in Mechelen. March: attack on a bar in Moelingen. April: attack on the Halletoren in Bruges. October: training camp in the United States together with the Ku Klux Klan. November: riots with the police after a Flemish nationalist demonstration in Kraainem. 1981 April: fire-bombing of a Moroccan bar in Lokeren. May: attack on a trade union building in Sint-Niklaas. 1982 February: visit to Leon Degrelle in Marbella, Spain. 1983 July: attack on a francophone bar in Voeren. 1984 December: attack on a socialist bar in Bruges. 1985 March: attack on leftist demonstrators in Ghent. September: fire-bombing of a socialist book store in Sint-Niklaas. October: attack on the Masereelfonds building in Bruges. November: attack on anti-fascist demonstrators in Lommel. The end of the VMO In 1981, 106 VMO members were sentenced by the Antwerp Court to imprisonment although their sentences were overturned the following year on appeal. In 1983, the VMO was condemned as a private militia by the Ghent Court of Appeal and outlawed. Despite this verdict, the VMO was considered to be active and operational until the late eighties, when several similar organizations were founded to replace the VMO. The two most successful of these VMO successors are the Odal Group and Voorpost. References Paramilitary organisations based in Belgium Terrorism in Belgium Neo-Nazi organizations Political