Kiev (dpa) - A group Ukrainians demonstrated on Tuesday in support of a war crimes trial for their former fellow countryman John Demjanjuk, the Interfax news agency reported.

The peaceful march by some 20 persons took place in front the German embassy in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Banners carried by the mostly student-age demonstrators read, in part "Ivan Demjanjuk is a Fascist executioner" and "A trial for Demjanjuk, is a trial for Fascism."

Mihaylo Liudmirsky, a spokesman for the Ukraine Jewish Committee, said the demonstration was intended to make public the group's view that criminal proceedings against the now-ailing Demjanjuk, "have no statute of limitations."

Demjanjuk, a US citizen born in Ukraine, is on trial in Munich Germany on charges of participating in mass murders of Jews at the World War II death camp Sobibor.

A judge adjourned proceedings last Wednesday due to Demjanjuk's poor health.

The war crimes case against the ethnic Ukrainian Demjanjuk's alleged complicity in the Jewish Holocaust is politically sensitive in Ukraine, as part of the country's population welcomed Nazi invasion in 1941, and collaborated with German occupation authorities.

Other citizens of then-Soviet region now known as modern Ukraine resisted German rule.

Demjanjuk is alleged to have worked as a concentration camp guard with the job, among other duties, of herding Jewish prisoners into gas chambers.

He has denied the allegations, saying he is a victim of mistaken identity.

Ukrainian media, usually outspoken in defence of ethnic Ukrainians in trouble with European law, have been almost silent on the progress of the Demjanjuk case.