ZGram - 1/20/2003 - "Now the Wiesenthalers advertise for snitches"

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ZGRAM - Where truth is destiny

Jaunary 20, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Have you ever seen anything so pathetic?

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BBC News, Saturday, 18 January, 2003, 00:46 GMT

Nazi hunters advertise in Latvia

A Latvian newspaper has published advertisements offering a $10,000 
reward for information leading to the trial and conviction of Nazi 
war criminals.

The advertisements are part of a campaign called "Operation Last 
Chance" launched by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, 
which hunts Nazi criminals.

About 80,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis and local collaborators 
in Latvia between 1941 and 1944. Thousands of Jews from other 
European countries were also sent to Latvia for execution.

But Latvia has not prosecuted any Nazi suspects since it regained 
independence in 1991.

The ads, showing a grainy photo of Jews being led to their 
execution, say "those who are responsible... must be punished".

They give phone numbers for the Latvian chief prosecutor's office 
and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Prosecutors in the former Soviet republic say gathering evidence 
against the few surviving suspects has been difficult.

"If anyone comes forward with information we are ready to 
investigate," said Dzintra Subrovska, a spokeswoman for the Latvian 
Prosecutor General's Office.

Similar ads were published in neighbouring Lithuania late last year 
and others will be run in Estonian newspapers later this month.

Of Latvia's 95,000 pre-war Jewish population, barely 4,000 survived 
the Holocaust.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2670791.stm