The Simon Wiesenthal
Center today announced that its “Operation: Last Chance” project
would continue in Croatia despite the receipt during the past week
of death threats against its organizers and other leading public
figures.
In a statement issued in Jerusalem by Chief Nazi hunter Dr. Efraim
Zuroff, who coordinates “Operation: Last Chance” worldwide,
the Center reiterated its determination to continue the project
which was launched in Zagreb on June 30.
“If anything, these threats only reinforce our intention
to attempt to maximize the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in
Croatia and clearly demonstrate why such a project is so important,” said
Zuroff, who was among those threatened with murder by the “Anti-Jewish
movement,” a hereto unknown right-wing extremist group. The
threats were sent to Zoran Pusic, president of the Civic Committee
for Human Rights which is the Wiesenthal Center’s local partner
in “Operation: Last Chance,” as well as to Nenad Puhovski,
chairman of the local Helsinki Committee and Croatian Justice Minister
Vesna Skare-Ozbolt. They warned that if any Croatian will be arrested,
jailed or harmed as a result of “Operation: Last Chance” they
will begin murdering Croatian Jews.
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