Human Rights Ombudsman dr. Zdenka Cebasek - Travnik took a stand against all summary executions after World War II in Thursday's response to comments about her failure to attend a recent ceremony commemorating victims of post-war reprisals by the Communists.

The ombudsman condemns all post-war summary killings although she did not attend the commemoration at a mass grave in Kocevski Rog, the ombudsman's office said in a press release.

The office added that the ombudsman was not invited to attend the ceremony, although she as a rule receives many such invitations. Since she cannot respond to all of them, she chooses to do so when she assesses the state has not done enough about an issue.

The keynote speaker at Sunday's ceremony, Justin Stanovnik, who heads the anti-Communist New Slovenian Testament association, urged the authorities to do something to make the organisations responsible "to confess their vile deeds".

He regretted that nothing had changed since 1990, when the first remembrance ceremony took place at the pit under Kren in Kocevski Rog, where the victims of the executions were buried.

Stanovnik also criticised the ombudsman for failing to "think of the genocide at Kocevski Rog" when she intervened with the government earlier this year to designate Holocaust Remembrance Day.