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Wiesenthal center denounces Lithuanian decision not to implement jail sentence
for convicted Nazi criminal based on flawed medical examinationl |
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Wiesenthal
Center Los Angeles
Vilnius - The Simon Wiesenthal Center today revealed that the recent decision
by a Lithuanian court not to punish convicted Lithuanian
Nazi war criminal Algimantas Dailide (number 9 on the
Center's "Most Wanted List") was made on the basis of a medical "examination" at which he was not physically present.
This fact emerged at a meeting
held here late Friday between the Center's chief Nazi-hunter
Dr. Efraim Zuroff and Special Prosecutor Rimvydas Valentukevicius.
According to Zuroff:
"This is only the
latest in a long series of farces produced by Lithuanian
prosecutors and judges who are clearly incapable of punishing
local Holocaust criminals. Despite the presence in Lithuania
since independence of numerous Nazi war criminals, not
a single one has ever been punished, a fact which clearly
shows the total inability of Lithuanian society to face
its bloody past of extensive participation in the mass
murder of Jews. It is high time that the international
community start paying attention to the serious judicial
and educational failures of Lithuania".
juedische.at
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