TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM ON JASENOVAC CONCENTRATION CAMP HELD IN N.Y.

( Editorial: --> 7139 ) WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (Hina) - A two-day symposium on the victims of the WW2 Jasenovac concentration camp began in New York on Thursday. Organisers, Bernard Klein and Barry Lituchy of Kingsborough College in New York's district of Brooklyn, brought together Serbian, American and Croatian scholars and surviving camp inmates. Among the participants are Vladimir Zerjavic of the Croatian Institute for History and Milan Bulajic, director of the Holocaust Museum in Belgrade. The results of research by Zerjavic, who found that between 48,000 and 59,000 Serbs had been killed in the camp during World War Two, were challenged by Serbian scholars who claimed that over 700,000 Serbs had been killed at Jasenovac, about 100 km southeast of Zagreb. The organisers announced that a proposal for establishing an "international commission on Jasenovac" would be considered. (hina) vm mm 311947 MET oct 97