ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION OF FASCIST CAMP PRISONERS MARKED IN RAB

RAB, Sept 14 (Hina) - A memorial service for the victims of a former fascist concentration camp in Kampor, Croatia's northern Adriatic island of Rab, was served on Sunday to mark the 54th anniversary since the liberation of about 4,500 prisoners of the camp. Some 15,000 prisoners passed through the camp between July 1942 and September 1943, Rab Mayor Zdenko Matijevic pointed out. Almost two thirds were Slovenes, the rest were Croats, while Jews were brought to the camp toward the end, he added. There had been no killings in the camp, but according to Matijevic, Kampor is justly labelled as infamous. Estimates show that some 4,640 prisoners died as a result of hunger, exhaustion and inhuman living conditions. (hina) ha mm 141810 MET sep 97