ZAGREB, April 10 (Hina) - Croatian efforts to investigate and prosecute Nazi war criminals over the last year were insufficient and unsuccessful, says the annual report on the investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals,
issued by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jarusalem.
ZAGREB, April 10 (Hina) - Croatian efforts to investigate and
prosecute Nazi war criminals over the last year were insufficient
and unsuccessful, says the annual report on the investigation and
prosecution of Nazi war criminals, issued by the Simon Wiesenthal
Centre in Jarusalem.#L#
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre issued its annual report this week,
which was forwarded to Hina on Wednesday.
The report covers the period between January 1 2001 and March 31,
2002.
The report, which includes statistical data on the prosecution of
Nazi criminals across the world, as well as new indictments and
investigations, says that "Croatia has conducted investigations
against three suspects during the past 15 months, but no conviction
have been obtained nor have any new indictments been filed."
The author of the report, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre Efraim
Zuroff, told hina over the phone the three suspects were Mirko
Eterovic, Ivo Rojnica and Luigi Papo. According to the Simon
Wiesenthal Centre information, Eterovic and Rojnica are in
Argentina and Papo is in Italy.
"We call upon the Croatian authorities to continue and complete the
excellent work done in the (Dinko) Sakic case and maximise their
efforts to bring Croatian Holocaust perpetrators to justice," the
report said.
By starting the trial and passing the verdict against former
commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp Dinko Sakic, Croatia
was the first post-communist country to process a II World War crime
suspect. The Zagreb County Court Penal of Judges in 1999, sentences
Sakic to 20 years in prison for war crimes against civilians.
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