BELGRADE
-- Simon Wiesenthal Center Director Efraim Zuroff stated
that the center is searching for a former Nazi from the time
of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
“We are now checking if the person from Croatia has been sentenced for his crimes
during Tito’s time. If so, we will not be able to try him
again. If not, we will ask Zagreb to indict him. The person
did not live in Latin America and I cannot tell you if
it is a male or a female,” Zuroff told daily Politika.
In his opinion the debate about
the number of victims in the Jasenovac Concentration Camp
has to be finished, recommending that an expert international
commission be established for getting access to all needed
documents, archives, and historical material.
“With the help of forensics, we
would come up with an assessment regarding the real proportions
of the executions in the Jasenovac Concentration Camp.
If we want to determine the historical truth about the
crimes during WWII, we cannot tolerate speculations about
the number of victims. The difference between 50,000 and
700,000 is so unbelievable that it cannot be accredited
to any historical fact,” he said.
Zuroff added that ghosts of the
past will not find peace as long as these numbers are being
manipulated with.
“As the time passes, it keeps
getting harder to draw a conclusion about something as
gruesome as the biggest concentration camp in the Balkans.
Politics is mixing with justice and even history. The conclusion
would have to be recognized by both Croatia and Serbia.
Only then can the necessary healing process begin,” Zuroff
concluded. b92.net
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