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Estonian Pursues Jews For
WWII Repression - Reward Offered

The Moscow Tribune
7-27-2



Tallinn (AFP) - An Estonian man has offered a reward for $20,000 for information on Jewish officers of the Soviet KGB involved in repression against Estonians, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.

"For my part, I am offering 20,000 US dollars to everyone whose honest confession brings about a fair court's verdict of guilty on criminals of the Jewish nationality who while serving in Soviet repressive bodies in the 1940s committed genocidal crimes in Estonia, Heiki Kortsparn was quoted as saying in the weekly Kesknadal.

The offer follows a $10,000 reward announced last week by the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre for information on residents in the three Baltic states who collaborated with the Nazis in the holocaust.

The $20,000 reward offer was published in a letter to the editor of the newspaper of Estonia's Centrist Party, which is in a two-party coalition government, but the party has not discussed the issue.

"We've published all sorts of letters representing all sorts of views. The party doesn't discuss all letters before publishing them. Kesknadal's editor-in-chief, Heamar Lenk said.

The Soviets deported over 30,000 Estonians to Siberia when they took over the country at the outset and after World War II. Many of the deported Estonian citizens suffered from disease and deprivation and died from the inhumane conditions.

Estonia prosecutors have brought cases for crimes against humanity against several ex-KGB officers for their involvement in the deportations.





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