SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE'S ZUROFF HOLDS TALKS WITH CROATIA'S GRANIC

ZAGREB, Oct 6 (Hina) - The director of the Jerusalem-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Efraim Zuroff, on Tuesday held talks in Zagreb with Croatian Minister Mate Granic. According to a statement from the Centre, the talks were held at Zuroff's demand, and focused on the international implications of the recent 20-year-imprisonment sentence the Zagreb County Court gave to Croatian World War Two concentration camp commander Dinko Sakic. The talks also discussed some issues relative to the educational process in Croatia in the context of the spreading of truth about WW2 events, and specific concrete measures to oppose manifestations of racism and anti-Semitism. Zuroff encouraged the idea of the establishment of a team of experts which would investigate crimes committed by Nazi-fascists and their collaborators during WW2 on the territory of the then Independent State of Croatia, as well as crimes committed by the Communist authorities. The statement added Zuroff was particularly pleased to hear of Granic's outrage at the publication in Croatia of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf", as well as of the announcement that the Croatian government would discuss the possibility of taking concrete steps to counter the circulation of that and similar publications. (hina) ha