June 21, 2003 - 18:45 AMT
CASE OF COMPENSATION TO FORMER ARMENIAN PRISONERS OF FASCIST CONCENTRATION CAMPS HEARD IN BERLIN
Hearings of the case on recognition of the right of Armenian citizens, who were kept in fascist concentration camps during World War II, to receive compensation from the German government is being held at the Berlin administrative court. German ministry of finance and "Memory, responsibility, future" fund are the defendants. The suit is lodged by German lawyer Stephan Taschian, who presents the interests of Armenian citizens - former prisoners of war Ishkhan Melkonian, 82, and Pargev Zakarian, 79. It should be reminded that in 2000 the German government signed a law on rendering compensation to former toilers of fascist concentration camps via "Memory, responsibility, future" fund. There are 2 thousand of them in Armenia.