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FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1991
M. Sempliner
Sydney, Australia (JTA) —
Although there are said to
be hundreds of war
criminals living in
Australia, speculation is rife
that the government may
soon abandon its efforts to
bring them to justice.
Concern mounted follow-
ing the surprise resignation
of Robert Greenwood as head
of the Justice Ministry's
Special Investigations Unit,
set up to trace Nazi war
criminals who have found
haven in Australia and br-
ing charges against them.
The unit was set up under
recent legislation that per-
mits Australian courts to try
alleged war criminals for
offenses committed abroad.
The constitutionality of
the law has been challenged
in the High Court. Mr.
Greenwood's announcement
that he is returning to pri-
vate practice as a barrister
was all the more surprising
in that it was made only
days before the High Court
is scheduled to hand down
its decision.
Mr. Greenwood's contract
would not have expired for
three months.
He has been replaced as
unit director by his former
deputy, Graham Blewitt.
Mr. Blewitt denied that
either the court challenge or
criticism of the unit's per-
formance was responsible for
Greenwood's resignation.
The Australian media
have accused the investiga-
tions unit of failing to bring
charges against any signifi-
cant numbr of war crime
suspects.
The opposition in Parlia-
ment has charged that the
$10.5 million spent so far
has produced "no real
result."
Mr. Blewitt said in a radio
interview that there are
"hundreds" of war criminals
living in Australia. But in-
vestigating them is very
complicated, and evidence is
not readily available, he
said.
So far, 11 cases await a
decision by the government
whether or not to prosecute.
What would have been
Australia's first war crimes
trial was canceled on the eve
of its opening last summer
after the defendant, Ukrai-
nian-born Ivan Polyukhovich,
was mysteriously shot.
Police indicated the wound
was self-inflicted.
Mr. Polyukhovich's at-
torneys subsequently in-
itiated the High Court
challenge to Australia's war
crimes legislation.
Mr. Greenwood said after
his resignation that even if
the High Court rules that
his multimillion dollar in-
vestigations had no legal
basis, they certainly had a
moral one.
"We have put a proposi-
tion before the Australian
people that there are such
things as war crimes and
crimes against humanity.
We have tapped a moral
force," Mr. Greenwood said.
He urged broader legisla-
tion to include criminal
refugees from regimes such
as those of Pol Pot in Cam-
bodia and Saddam Hussein
in Iraq.
Turkey, Israel Discuss
Mideast Water Pipeline
Jerusalem (JTA) —
Turkish President Turgut
Ozal and Israeli opposition
leader Shimon Peres met
last week in Amsterdam and
discussed a bold proposal for
Turkey to pipe water to the
Middle East.
The two countries' leaders
met at the fourth Global
Panel conference, a
prestigious international
seminar held in Amsterdam,
where both were invited to
speak.
Many experts say water is
more important to the future
of the Middle East than oil.
The project Messrs. Ozal and
Peres discussed calls for - pip-
ing water, which is plentiful
in Turkey, to arid Saudi
Arabia and to water-poor
Israel, the West Bank and
Egypt.
The two giant pipelines
would take seven years to
build, at an estimated max-
imum cost of $20 billion.
The oil-rich Saudis could
easily finance the project
alone and would hardly feel
it, spread over seven years,
Mr. Peres said.
The Israeli said he liked
Mr. Ozal's down-to-earth ap-
proach to the water problem
and was impressed by his
decisiveness and vision.