Serbia investigating World War Two genocide suspect
26 Sep 2008 14:32:10 GMT Source: Reuters
BELGRADE, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Serbia has launched an investigation into a U.S. citizen suspected of committing genocide as a Nazi SS officer in Belgrade during World War Two, the Serbian war crimes court said on Friday. The court said in a statement Peter Egner was suspected of "committing criminal acts of genocide and war crimes against civilians on the territory of Belgrade" in 1941-44. In July, the U.S. Justice Department asked a federal court to revoke the U.S. citizenship of 86-year-old Egner "based on evidence on his role in a Nazi mobile killing unit that participated in the mass murder of more than 17,000 Serbian civilians," mainly Jews, Serbs, communists and Roma. Egner entered the United States in 1960 and became a citizen in 1966. More than half a million Serbs were killed during the war, as well as many Roma. Belgrade was occupied by German forces from April 1941 until October 1944. (Reporting by Ljilja Cvekic, Editing by Adam Tanner)
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