YUG ARCHIVES REFUSED TO GIVE CRO ARCHIVES LIST OF WW2 VICTIMS

( Editorial: --> 8904 ) ZAGREB, April 23 (Hina) - The Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia Archives informed the Croatian State Archives that it could not forward the publication which lists World War II victims. The Yugoslav Archives recommended that the Croatian State Archives approach the Yugoslav Bureau of Statistics, which put together that publication. Croatian State Archives put in the request at the end of March. The Yugoslav Archives state in a letter that the Yugoslav Bureau of Statistics in 1992 put out some copies of the publication, "Victims of the War from 1941 to 1945 - a listing from 1964", based on documents of the former Yugoslavia's Federal Commission for the listing of war victims. In 1964 that Commission undertook a survey on the territory of the former Yugoslavia on the war victims and that material was transported, as confidential, from the former federal republics to the Yugoslav Archives. "Following the 1964 poll, the Federal Commission concluded that the published listing was incomplete and not of adequate quality so the use of the material was prohibited," reads the letter from the Yugoslav Archives. The letter further states that nevertheless the Federal Commission's material was collated into 16 volumes consisting of about 11,000 pages. When consultations on Jasenovac were held in New York last year, some volumes of the listing of WWII victims were on public display. (hina) jn mrb 231408 MET apr 98