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Wiesenthal: Croatian associates get death threats From DPA (Deutsche Presse Agentur) 23 July 2004

The Simon Wiesenthal Center said yesterday that their associates who helped locate World War II crime suspects in Croatia have been receiving death threats.

The center said "Operation Last Chance" - aimed at discovering WWII crime suspects - would continue in Croatia despite the death threats against the project's organizers in the past few weeks. "If anything, these threats only reinforce our intention to attempt to maximize the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in Croatia," said the center's director.

According to Zuroff, death threats were sent to Zoran Pusic, president of the Civic Committee for Human Rights, Croatian Justice Minister Vesna Skare Ozbolt, and other public figures. A Croatian organization called the Anti-Jewish Movement warned that if any Croat was arrested, jailed, or harmed as a result of the Operation, the group would "begin murdering Croatian Jews."