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          CROATIAN UN MISSION ON SERBS FLEEING FROM SARAJEVO

New York, Feb 28, 1996 (Press TWRA) - "Exodus of Serbs from the
Sarajevo suburbs caused unjustified charges against B-H govt.
similar to the charges against Croatian govt. on Serbs fleeing
from the so-called Krajina. As Croatian govt. could not do much
about it then, neither can Bosnian govt. now to make Serbs stay
there when their leaders call them and often force them to.
Croatain govt. view is that Serb exodus from Sarajevo is tragedy
like it was in Croatia, but neither Croatian nor B-H govt. had
brought it about. Last August, Croatian ambassador to UN, Mario
Nobilo said Serbs were victims of stupidity of their own leaders.
The exodus is tragic as Serb policy is aimed at ethnically
cleansed state. Those and many other Serbs were misled by their
own leaders, their intelligence and Church believing that Serbs
could live neither with Croats nor with Muslims or anybody else.
This fabricated belief is a real tragedy that neither Croatian
government nor the international community can change," stressed
the ambassador Nobilo reminding that one of Serb leaders Milan
Babic confirmed that Serbs had left at the command of their
leadership hoping to cause a rage of the international community
against Croatia and military response of Belgrade. In the first
Croatian action in western Slavonia, Milan Martic demanded the UN
support in evacuating all Serbs from the region," was announced
in the Croatian mission at the UN. /end/ A.S.

  DRUNK SERB SOLDIERS WENT ON THE RAMPAGE IN THE SARAJEVO SUBURBS 
  
London, Feb 28, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Of Serbs living now in the
Sarajevo suburbs of Hadzici, Ilijas, Grbavica and Ilidza, only
the courageous, old, ill and bandits will be remaining soon,
claims "The Guardian" correspondent Julian Borger who was on
visit at Hadzici. During the visit he talked with a Serb family
loading their property on a truck who complained Borger and his
interpreter they did not know where they were going to. Then
chetniks - members of the paramilitary extreme Serb chauvinists
arrived. Serb family stopped talking with the journalist and
hurried on packing their things. Chetnik leader, with face 
disguised with dirty grey beard and mouth smelling of sljivovica 
(plum brandy, alcoholic drink popular among Serbs and in the
Balkans,too), started offending Borger and his interpreter,
threatening them as he was furious because "the US journalist who
had bombed Serbs, escaped", then press a gun against Berger's
face and then his interpreter's face. When chetniks' rage
intensified, the interpreter explained him that Borger and he
came to "witness the Serb suffering." Chetnik leader answered by
swearing telling them to get lost from Hadzici. In the article
Borger reminds that groups of bandits are the main or the only
authority in the parts of Sarajevo which Serbs are abandoning,
concluding his report with the words: "On our way back to
Sarajevo a colon of Serb refugees was passing by: a procession of
painful and slow suicide of Serbs from Sarajevo. /end/ A.S.�## CrossPoint v3.02 ##