CEREMONY IN COMMEMORATION OF JASENOVAC CONCENTRATION CAMP VICTIMS

VICTIMS $ JASENOVAC, April 21 (Hina) - Representatives of the antifascist war veterans' federations of Croatia and Slovenia, Jasenovac camp survivors, the Jewish community of Zagreb, the Croatian-Israeli Jewish Society and the Association of Romanies of Croatia met in Jasenovac, about 120 km southeast of Zagreb, on Sunday to commemorate the 51st anniversary of an uprising in the former World War Two concentration camp. After a wreath-laying ceremony, which also involved representatives of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Action of Croatian Socialists (ASH), participants observed a minute of silence in honour of the people who had been executed in the camp. "The evil must never be forgotten or forgiven nor it can be allowed to return. Therefore we demand that all criminals be brought before the international tribunal in The Hague and that the promotion of fascism and nazism be banned by law," said the president of the Antifascist War Veterans' Federation of Croatia, Ivan Fumic. An interconfessional service in memory of the victims of the Jasenovac camp involved the head of the Hebrew Language Department of Zagreb, Moshe Meshulam, retired Serb Orthodox parish priest Jovan Nikolic, Roman Catholic parish priest of Trnava Luka Vincetic and Branko Lovrec, president of the Federation of Baptist churches in Croatia. (hina) vm 211559 MET apr 96