SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS, April 30, 1996

Srpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) Directory

From: Mirjana Petrovic <almirja@cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu>

CELIC - About 400 Serbs prevented 600 Muslims to cross the RS border near Celic and Koraj, on the Majevica area, reports AFP. As a danger of incident was very real, IFOR positioned its troops between the two sides, and a Russian IFOR officer forbade everybody to cross an hundred meters zone between the RS and the croatMuslim Federation.

SRPSKO GORAZDE - About 100 Muslims from Gorazde attempted to enter the Serb territory near Donja Sopotnica, but were pre vented by 1,000 Serbs who gathered in the are some earlier.

DOBOJ - There some indications that the Muslims will try again to cross the RS border NE from Teslic, warned Bjern Ridd mark, officer with the IFOR Information Service in Tuzla.

SARAJEVO - IFOR announced that one Muslim was killed in yesterday's incident in Doboj, but not two as was previously reported. IFOR spokesman, Max Mariner stated at a press confer ence held in Sarajevo, that only one Muslim was confirmed dead due to mine explosion.

DOBOJ - The IFOR NordicPolish Brigade and the "Eagle" Operative Group started an investigation into the incident that occurred during yesterday's attempt of the Muslims from Gracanica to enter Doboj. "A group of the Gracanica Muslims passed by the check point set up between Lukavica and Sjenina, without Serb permission. They reached a mine field which is the reason of their casualties, but not a confrontation with local residents and police", confirmed IFOR officials.

PALE - IFOR representatives qualified the Muslim attempts of incursions into Serb territory as a politically orchestrated provocation and misuse of proceedings on freedom of movement. It was confirmed that some Muslims did not adhere to IFOR rules and advised routes while tried to enter Doboj yesterday, because of which they stepped into a mine field, where a Muslim was killed and five wounded.

BANJALUKA - UNHCR Office in Banjaluka issued an announcement regarding yesterday's events in Doboj, saying that "a tragic score of the incident is a consequence of deficiency of coopera tion between the two former warring parties".

TUZLA - The vicepresident of the Muslim-Croat Federation Ejup Ganic, is the leading initiator and agitator of uncon trolled Muslim crossing to the territory of Republika Srpska (RS), stated today the Tuzla mayor, Selim Beslagic. In statement for RadioTuzla, Beslagic, who is leader of Independent Social- Democratic Party, accused the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) of opting for war in order to create its objectives promoting extremism, while not consulting with other political parties in the Federal Parliament".

TRAVNIK - A representative of the Travnik Centre for Securi ty Services, Izet Selmanovic, accused the Croat authorities of organising attacks at Muslim police in the Lasva river valley, in which in the recent days 13 policemen were wounded, out of whom four seriously. "We will not and cannot tolerate such acts, and we will adequately respond any future attack on Muslim police", stated Selimovic for Radio Travnik.

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