European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b a the stars and stripes thursday june 4, 1992 a John Dan thai Juk laughs As he arrives wednesday at israelis supreme court for an appeals hearing. Defense insists conspiracy falsely convicted Demjan Juk Jerusalem apr John Dema Njuki a defense said wednesday that he was falsely convicted of being the sadistic nazi death Camp guard a Ivan the terrible by a court that was More concerned about Public opinion than facts. But the prosecution declared that Demjan Juk was a guard in a nazi death Camp and that alone was enough to convict him of nazi War crimes under israeli Law. A sitting Here before us is a guard in the service of the is who operated the Gas Chambers and was nicknamed a Ivan the terrible by the survivors of Treblinka a prosecuting attorney Michael Shaked said in his final summation in the supreme court Appeal. Demjan Juk 72, is appealing his 1988 Jerusalem District court conviction of being a Ivan a a sadistic Gas chamber operator at the Treblinka death Camp in nazi occupied Poland where about 850,000 jews died in 1942 and 1943. Demjan Juk was sentenced to death. Dema Njuki a defense attorney Yoram Sheftel has accused the pros culion of not showing conclusive proof that Demjan Juk was a guard at Treblinka. In his summations Sheftel called the trial a Quot conspiracy Quot and demanded his client he acquitted. The ukrainian born Demjan Juk a retired Cleveland autoworkers says he is a victim of mistaken identity and spent most of world War 11 in German prisoner of War Camps after being captured in May 1942 while serving in the soviet army. The prosecution has submitted nazi documents that it says place Demjan Juk in the sob ibor death Camp in Poland and in Flosson Lairg concentration Camp in Germany. A a the additional status of Gas chamber operator can he seen As almost marginal in Light of the horrors described Here a Shaked said. A there is enough evidence that once you prove that someone had been a guard in a death Camp it is Suffi Jerusalem apr masked palestinian activists gunned Down a suspected Collaborator with Israel in front of his two daughters wednesday the army and Arah reports said. Aziz Serisis 60, died immediately from three Bullet wounds Hospital officials said. A Danin this Homeland. You dogs you criminals a his daughters shouted at a crowd who gathered As scrip s body Lay on the Street outside Nablus City Hall Arab reports said. The reports said palestinian activists had tried a Many limes to kill Serisis an Arab. Israeli troops cordoned off the area in the West Bank a largest town and searched for the killers the army said. Client a to convict somebody under the israeli Law concerning War crimes Shaked said. Shaked citing the same deposition submitted by the defense described on wednesday the extermination process at nazi death Camps. Demjan Juk served As a guard from june 1942 until at least october 1944 without interruption a was part of the is extermination machine in different places a Shaked said. A fall guards took an Active part in the extermination of any jew who came to these death Camps. Not one of the guards tried to get out of this Job. Shaked said. The same deposition quotes 37 ukrainian Treblinka guards and forced labourers As saying the real Ivan the terrible was one Ivan Marchenko the basis of dam Jan Juke a Appeal Marchenko who did not resemble Demjan Juk disappeared while fighting with yugoslav partisans at the end of the War. The guards testified in nazi War crimes trials in the soviet Union in the 1940s through 1960s, and were executed. Israel won Access to the material alter the collapse of the soviet Union. Shaked said the court was functioning both As Appeal court and a trial court since so much evidence came to Light after Dema Njuki slower court conviction. Sheftel accused the trial court of a a a improper functioning from beginning to end that prevented it from determining the facts. For example he said the judges would sometimes read excerpts from Media coverage of the trial in court. He noted the trial was held in a theater and broadcast live on radio and television. Sheftel suggested that such a charged atmosphere influenced some of the five Treblinka survivors who identified Demjan Juk As Ivan the terrible. Wednesdays killing was the fourth since Plo Leader Yasser Arafat issued a plea sunday to Stop killing suspected collaborators in the occupied territories. Other prominent palestinian leaders recently issued similar Calls. The number of palestinians killed by palestinians has risen to 98 this year. Israeli soldiers have killed 55 palestinians during the same period. Serisis was the 577th palestinian killed by Brethren As an alleged Collaborator with Israel since the uprising against israeli Rule in the occupied lands began 4 i years ago. World Honecker Case expanded to encompass 49 deaths from wire reports Berlin a Berlin prosecutors said wednesday that they had indicted former East German Leader Erich Honecker in the deaths of 49 people who tried to flee from his communist regime greatly increasing the number of counts against him. Honecker who has found Refuge in the chilean embassy in Moscow originally had been charged in four deaths. Berlin prosecutors say he issued shoot to kill orders to Nis Border guards and was responsible for mines and automatic firing devices installed on the  Barracks bombed Lerma Spain a police suspect Basque separatists planted a bomb that rocked a civil guards Barracks in the Northern town of Lurma Early wednesday causing considerable property damage but no injuries. A police spokeswoman said the Barracks had been evacuated after guards discovered two backpacks close to the building an hour before the bomb went off about 5 a.m.13 conquer Mountain Edmonton Alberta a thirteen Canadian soldiers have conquered Canadas highest Mountain 19,571-foot-High mount Logan the expeditions spokesman said. Capt. John Scott said tuesday that most of the group had tried in either 1988 or 1990 to scale the Mountain in southwestern Yukon a Kluane National Park near the Alaska  shooting kills 7 Johannesburg South Africa a four gunmen opened fire on a minibus and kilted seven people tuesday after the Driver refused to enter a dangerous area of Soweto police said. The gunmen were passengers on the bus and had demanded that they be driven to a workers Hostel where several have occurred recently witnesses . Provides cooking Oil Tirana Albania a the United states on tuesday granted Albania $10 million to buy cooking Oil under an agreement signed by . Ambassador William Ryerson and albanian foreign Trade minister Artan Hoxha. Cooking Oil has been absent from store shelves for at least three  collide near Zurich Zurich Switzerland a thirty seven persons were injured when a commuter train collided with an express train in the suburban Railroad station of richters Wil South of Zurich on tuesday Railroad officials said. All of the victims were  workers to strike Rome a strikes called by air and rail employees Are expected to bedevil travellers in Italy through sunday. Ticket collectors will strike for stretches ranging from four to 24 hours Long starting tonight through sunday. Meanwhile pilots of privately run Meridian airline announced a 48-Nour-Strikc scheduled to begin , Austria sign pact Paris a the French and austrian defense ministers Pierre Joe and Werner Fasslabend on tuesday signed a military cooperation agreement that proposes joint meetings Between army and air Force commanders. The Accord also Calls for exchanging information and permits the a organization and institutionalization of regular Contact Between our High commands and different forms of cooperation Between our armies a Joe said. Palestinians kill suspected Collaborator