FRY DID NOT FORWARD ANY EVIDENCE IN NADA SAKIC CASE - MINISTRY

ZAGREB, Feb 10 (Hina) - Representatives of the Croatian Justice Ministry on Wednesday denied that the Yugoslav Justice Ministry had forwarded any evidence of crimes committed by Nada Sakic to the Croatian judicial authorities. The Ministry reported nothing special had been forwarded to them regarding the Nada Sakic case. There were certain things which were related to the Dinko Sakic case and also referred to Nada Sakic, however they were more of a general nature, the Ministry reported. The Zagreb State Attorney's Office on February 1 terminated the prosecution of Nada Sakic, suspected of war crimes against civilians during WWII, due to the lack of evidence in the pre-trial proceedings. The Yugoslav Justice Ministry has cooperated with the Croatian judicial authorities and forwarded evidence of Dinko and Nada Sakic's crimes, Belgrade's media reported. The Zagreb County State Attorney, Radovan Santek, said Yugoslavia was probably referring to the materials sent regarding the Dinko Sakic case, in which Nada Sakic was mentioned. "Nothing directly referring to Nada Sakic has been forwarded", Santek added. Regarding a claim by the Yugoslav Government saying it would demand that Dinko and Nada Sakic be tried in Yugoslavia because it was the citizens of today's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia who had suffered the most in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945), Vladimir Zerjavic, author of a book on the Yugoslav population losses in WWII, said such claims were completely false. For decades they have been twisting facts, Zerjavic said. He added that even a Belgrade publisher Antun Miletic, who has been dealing with war victims for more than 40 years, presented data at a conference held in New York in late 1997, which read that 5,892 persons from FRY, 40,158 from Croatia, 32,846 from Bosnia- Herzegovina, 192 from Slovenia and 14 from Macedonia had been killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp. (hina) it mm/rml