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WW II Survivors to UN:
Investigate Vatican Genocide!

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New York, New York--An open letter on behalf of Serb and Jewish survivors of World War II atrocities at the hands of fanatical Catholic Croatians known as the "Ustasha" is requesting UN Secretary General Kofi Annan 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 suit, 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.

After the 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 U.S. State Department, recently declassified documents, and numerous exposes of the ratline.

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The victims through their attorneys Easton and Levy have called upon the Secretary General to 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.