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Latvian Minister Calls for Investigation of Newspaper for Antisemitic Article


(June 19, 2003)

Latvia’s Special Minister for Integration Nils Muiznieks has appealed to the general prosecutor’s office to investigate a newspaper that printed an article denying the Holocaust for inciting ethic hatred, according to a June 13, 2003 report by the Baltic News Service (BNS). The article, entitled “Falsifiers of History,” appeared in the newspaper “DDD,” published by Aivars Garda, whose Vieda publishing house has printed books in the recent past calling for Russians to be expelled from Latvia and defaming homosexuals.

In the article, author Karlis Rebins claims that “the richest kikes in the world, Churchill and Roosevelt” started World War II, not Hitler, and that Jews spread “legends about gas chambers in which six million kikes died. That is a historical lie composed by kike historians.”

Mr. Muiznieks told BNS that such an article “may inspire dangerous consequences for the broader public and publicly undermine the honor and dignity of a concrete ethnic group.” In reply, Mr. Garda called on Mr. Muiznieks to study world and Latvian history more thoroughly. The BNS story did not report any reply yet from the general prosecutor’s office.


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