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October 22, 1996
Web posted at: 11:20 p.m. EDT (0320 GMT)Jewish community blames security forces for cemetery vandalism
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) -- Jewish community leaders have blamed members of Argentina's security forces for a wave of vandalism in which 60 Jewish gravestones were smashed and swastikas were painted on dozens more.
Unidentified vandals broke into Argentina's main Jewish cemetery in the Buenos Aires outskirts late Saturday, smashing tombstones, spraying them with swastikas and daubing the place with graffiti calling the Holocaust a "great Jewish lie."
Argentina is home to one of the world's largest Jewish communities, which in the past few years has suffered two major bomb attacks and at least five cemetery desecrations, the last one in September during the Jewish New Year.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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