ZAGREB GOVT. SAYS DIDN'T ALLOW STAGING OF 'HOLOCAUST ON YOUR PLATE' EXHIBITION

ZAGREB, March 25 (Hina) - The Zagreb City Government said on Thursday it did not approve the holding of yesterday's "Holocaust on Your Plate" exhibition because the request for staging the display had not indicated that the organiser would show images of death camps.#L# The Friends of Animals association, which on Wednesday put up billboards in Zagreb's central square juxtaposing images of animal farms with images of Nazi concentration camps, was given a permit to stage an international campaign for the promotion of vegetarianism, the capital's authorities said. They added the request for the permit stated the display would consist of images of conditions in which animals were kept in and that there had been no mention of associating them with images of WWII death camps. The display is part of an international tour staged in many European capitals by the British association for the protection of animals - Peta. Organisers said their intention was to point out that contemporary society abused animals and justified their slaughter. The display on Ban Jelacic Square elicited harsh reactions from associations which said it degraded and smeared the victims of the Holocaust as well as the public. Among the foreign associations which slammed the campaign were the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre. (Hina) ha