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RFE/RL NEWSLINE  10 March 1999

SLOVAK NATIONALIST LEADER FACES INVESTIGATION. The
Prosecutor-General's office has opened an investigation
into the statements recently made by Slovak National
Party leader Jan Slota on Hungarians and Roma (see
"RFE/RL Newsline," 9 March 1999), CTK reported. If the
parliament agrees to lifting his immunity, he could be
charged with instigating racial and national hatred and
with promoting the suppression of individual rights and
freedoms. In the case of a guilty verdict, he could face
up to eight years in prison. Slota, who is also chairman
of the legislature's committee that monitors the secret
services, told Radio Twist on 9 March that he refuses to
apologize for his statements and is not afraid of losing
his immunity. MS

FORMER HUNGARIAN DEFENSE MINISTER ACCUSED OVER MISSING
FILES. A group of veterans of the 1956 Hungarian
uprising suspects Gyorgy Keleti, former defense minister
in Gyula Horn's cabinet, of involvement in the
disappearance of the files of the former premier,
Hungarian media reported on 9 March. The group claims
that Horn was involved in the shooting of civilians
following the crushing of the Budapest uprising. They
have informed the Military Prosecutor's Office that they
suspect Keleti of having ordered Jozsef Csaradi, head of
the Defense Ministry Archives, to hide Horn's file. The
veterans say Keleti later promoted Csaradi to the rank
of colonel. Keleti dismissed the accusations, saying a
court has already concluded that those files were
removed from the archives before 1994, under a
Democratic Forum government. MSZ

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