Kommando, and the legion's inclusion of members of the Latvian fascist movement Pērkonkrusts, and Holocaust participants, has led to accusations that, under international military law, the legion met the criteria for a criminal organisation and/or that a significant proportion of its members, were directly or indirectly involved in war crimes. It has also been claimed that soldiers of the legion were involved in a massacre of Polish POWs at Podgaje, in 1945. Even though the Nuremberg Tribunal excluded Latvian Waffen SS units from the list of criminal organisations, scholars such as Leanid Kazyrytski have argued that the Latvian Legion does possess all the features of a criminal organisation, as defined by the Tribunal. Other scholars and researchers, such as the Finnish journalist Jukka Rislakki, in his 2008 book The Case for Latvia: Disinformation Campaigns Against a Small Nation has dismissed descriptions of the legion as a criminal organisation. Rislakki has described it as an example of "guilt by association". Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires In the years after the war, 16 March was chosen by the Latvian Legion veterans' organisation in Western exile, , as the day of the Latvian Legion, to commemorate a battle on the eastern shore of the Velikaya River for Hill "93,4", fought by both 15th and the 19th Waffen-SS divisions. In 1990, Legion veterans started commemorating March 16 in Latvia. In 1998 Latvia's Saeima (parliament) voted this to be an official national remembrance day. The word "Legion" was, however, excluded from the remembrance day's name, in order to include all those who fought against the Soviets, both during World War II, and as resistance fighters afterwards. International pressure forced the Saeima to remove March 16 from the list of "State remembrance days" in 2000. March 16 events have been quite confrontational in recent years, with Latvian nationalist organizations (such as the National Alliance and National Power Unity) marching in support of the Latvian Legion, and predominantly-Russian organizations (Latvian Russian Union) holding protests and attempting to block the marches. Due to a particularly harsh controversy around the official commemoration of the Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires in 1998, the Latvian officials refrain from its official honoring. Currently, the official position of Latvian authorities is that the Day is a primarily private business of the veterans and their relatives. On 21 February 2012 The Council of Europe's Commission against Racism and Intolerance published its report