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August 16, 2002
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A Lithuanian extremist asked Lithuania to press criminal charges against Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff. In a letter to the Lithuanian prosecutor general, extremist politician Salius Ozelis wrote that the $10,000 award Zuroff’s Simon Wiesenthal Center recently offered for information about Nazi war criminals “incites ethnic discord and offends the people of Lithuania.”

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