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Article: PROSECUTORS SUFFER A SETBACK IN AUSTRALIAN WAR CRIMES TRIAL
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- July 21, 1992
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Jeremy Jones
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
07-21-1992
PROSECUTORS SUFFER A SETBACK IN AUSTRALIAN WAR CRIMES TRIAL.
SYDNEY, Australia, July 20 (JTA)--Australian war crimes prosecutors were denied their request to take testimony in Ukraine from two elderly women who were to be witnesses in the case against alleged Nazi collaborator Mikolay Berezowsky.
Berezowsky is charged with being involved in the murder in 1942 of 102 Jews near the village of Gnivan, Ukraine, where he was the head of the local police unit recruited by the German occupation forces.
Berezowsky is the second person to be charged under Australia's amended war crimes act, which allows World War II war crimes suspects living in ...