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Article: Australia given list of suspected war criminals
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- May 31, 2002
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SYDNEY: The Simon Wiesenthal Centre human-rights organization has
given Australia a list of 22 suspected Lithuanian Nazi war criminals
it believes fled to Australia.
The centre said this is Canberra's last chance to show political
will and pursue war criminals.
In a statement on the centre's website, centre director Efraim
Zuroff said: "Australia remains the only Western country to which
large numbers of Nazi war criminals and collaborators emigrated after
World War II which has hereto failed to take successful legal action
against a single such person."
The Jerusalem-based centre, named after the ...