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NEWS ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 13, 2000
Law Offices of Easton & Levy Tel. (513) 528-0586
E- Mail: jlevy1@cinci.rr.com

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been called upon to investigate claims of World War II era Genocide by Vatican and Franciscans.

An open letter on behalf of Serb and Jewish survivors of wartime atrocities by the fanatical Catholic Croatians known as the "Ustasha" requests the UN Secretary General to investigate allegations of genocide committed by the Vatican and Franciscans.

Specifically the victims claim:

The Vatican and Franciscans knowingly helped Croatian and Nazi war criminals escape justice by organizing and funding the Nazi smuggling ratline based at San Girolamo and the Vatican whose many beneficiaries included Eichman, Barbie, Artukovich and Pavelic.

Allegations of money laundering of the Croatian Nazi (Ustasha) Treasury consisting of loot stolen from concentration camp and other victims; and as to the Croatian Franciscan order, actual participation in genocide against Serbs, Jews, and Roma comprising the over 500,000 victims of the Croatian Nazis slaughtered in Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia during Word War II.

Victims' claims in the class action Alperin v. Vatican Bank include mass rape, beheadings, torture, mutilations, burnings, establishment of concentration and forced labor camps, destruction of Orthodox Churches and Jewish Synagogues, and looting of assets valued in the hundreds of millions by the Ustashe and Franciscans. Post war the Vatican provided sanctuary for the Ustashe killers until they could be whisked away to safety in South America via the Vatican ratline financed by Ustashe loot.

The Vatican and Franciscans have steadfastly denied involvement in these activities despite documentation by the US State Department, recently declassified documents, and numerous exposes of the ratline.

The victims through their attorneys Easton and Levy have called upon the Secretary General to consider and investigate the allegations and to call upon the Vatican and Franciscans, both of whom enjoy Observer status at the United Nations, to open their wartime archives.

For more information and full text of letter see:

http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/press6.html