Shown below are:

1. The article that appeared in the World Report section, page B2, of The Windsor Star of Thursday, October 10, 2002, titled:

ITALY'S HIGHEST COURT BACKS CONVICTION, LIFE SENTENCE

(Rome) Italy's highest criminal court upheld a former SS officer's conviction for raping, torturing and killing prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp in Italy during the Second World War, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The Court of Cassation also upheld the life sentence of Michael Seifert.

Seifert, a Canadian citizen of U K R A I N I A N origin, was convicted in absentia. Italy is seeking the extradition of Seifert, who lives in Vancouver.

But his lawyer, Doug Christie, is challenging that request on grounds that the evidence used by Italian courts to convict Seifert would not be admissible in Canada - a contravention of Canadian extradition law.

Christie also claims the 78-year-old Seifert is mentally unfit.

2. The CENSORED Letter to the Editor, that appeared on the op-ed page A11, of The Windsor Star of Saturday, October 19, 2002, titled:

SS OFFICER'S ETHNICITY NOT RELATED TO CRIME

Since Michael Seifert's ethnic origin, stressed as being Ukrainian in the article titled Italy's Highest Court Backs Conviction, Life Sentence (The Windsor Star, Oct.10, 2002) is totally irrelevant to anything this stale journalistic expose was attempting to convey, I am downright puzzled why it was introduced at all?

Furthermore, even if his ethnicity was in some way relevant, I am wondering why it wasn't defined as being Estonian-German-Italian-Canadian, but, of all things, Ukrainian?

I do realize that the World Report section of your paper is compiled from the Star News Services, but this fact alone doesn't explain or justify anything.

Morris Prytulak
Windsor

3. The UNEDITED Letter to the Editor of The Windsor Star, e-mailed on Friday

October 11, 2002

Letters to the Editor
The Windsor Star
167 Ferry Street
Windsor, Ontario N9A 4M5

Dear Editor:

Since Michael Seifert's ethnic origin, stressed as being Ukrainian, in the article titled Italy's Highest Court Backs Conviction, Life Sentence (The Windsor Star, page B2, October 10, 2002) is totally irrelevant to anything this stale "journalistic expose" was attempting to convey, I am downright puzzled why it was introduced at all?

Furthermore, even if his ethnicity was in some way relevant to the above-mentioned emetic concoction, I am wondering why it wasn't defined as being Estonian-German-Italian-Canadian, but, of all things, Ukrainian instead?

After all, Michael Seifert's ethnic origin, unequivocally, happens to be:

Estonian, because (according to The Globe and Mail, November 25, 2000, page A3) he was born in Narva, Estonia, and not Ukraine;

German, because he bears German name, was an SS officer (a status fanatically denied to all Ukrainian untermenschen!) and speaks at home exclusively German, and not Ukrainian;

Italian, because the atrocities of which he was convicted occurred in Italy, and not Ukraine;

Canadian, because he spent most of his life (since August 14, 1951) in Canada, is a Canadian citizen, and belongs exclusively to German Canadian churches and organizations, but to no Ukrainian ones; and, finally, imaginary

Ukrainian, merely because The Windsor Star says so !!!

I do realize, sir, that the World Report section of your paper is compiled from the Star News Services, but this fact alone doesn't explain or justify anything; least of all, addresses the painful reality that this so-called news service does a great disservice to your readers, by dessiminating seemingly racially-motivated and hate-tinted falsehoods concerning all Ukrainian Canadians, of whom I am proud to be one.

Sincerely yours

Morris Prytulak
Windsor, Ontario