JERUSALEM: Adolf Eichmann, the Gestapo Colonel who herded millions of Jews to the Nazi death camps, was convicted yesterday as a multi-war criminal under an Israeli law that provides the death penalty.

The special Israeli tribunal opened a 300-page judgment with a blanket verdict of guilty against Eichmann for crimes against the Jews, crimes against humanity, war crimes and membership in Hitler’s criminal and Security Police machinery.

Presiding Judge Moshe Landau started the reading of the findings, based on a 15-count indictment and four months of testimony in the dramatic case, which opened on April 11, almost a year after Israeli agents flushed Eichmann out of hiding in Argentina and flew him here.

Eichmann stood in his bullet-proof, glass-enclosed cage as the court intoned judgment. Now bald, bespectacled and hardly forbidding, Eichmann squared his shoulders and heard the clap of judgment without blinking as though he fully expected it and was braced for it.

Locker exchange

KARACHI: Pakistan and India yesterday agreed to complete the exchange of evacuee lockers and safe deposits from either side and ban accounts of evacuees from agreed areas on Jan 15. The bulk of the items have already been changed on Nov 30 as scheduled. — Agencies