ZUROFF ANNOUNCES NEW WITNESSES TO TESTIFY AGAINST NADA SAKIC

ZAGREB, March 3 (Hina) - Director of Israel's Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Ephraim Zuroff, on Wednesday announced new testimonies would be submitted to the Croatian Justice Ministry on Nada Sakic's involvement in crimes, which, according to him, should lead to a retrial. Nada Sakic was investigated in Zagreb for crimes against humanity while she was a guard at a women's concentration camp during WWII. She was not tried due to insufficient evidence. "We are confident that once this material has been reviewed, the case will be reopened and we hope that the necessary measures will be taken against her," Zuroff said at Zagreb's airport on Wednesday. He arrived in Zagreb to observe the trial against Dinko Sakic, the former commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp during WWII, charged with war crimes against humanity. This trial will be a litmus test for Croatia, for a country which aspires to be fully integrated into the West, Zuroff said. He stressed the Wiesenthal Centre had in the past three months obtained testimonies from at least three new witnesses about the direct involvement of Nada Sakic in crimes. He said their names and a part of their testimonies would be submitted to the Justice Ministry by the end of next month. (hina) lml