Subject: YDS 8/28 From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov) 28. AUGUST 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY C O N T E N T S : FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - YUGOSLAV DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER: YUGOSLAVIA WANTS PEACE - YUGOSLAV HIGH OFFICIAL ENDS SUCESSFUL VISIT TO WASHINGTON - YUGOSLAV MINISTER ON ABUSE OF TRAGEDY OF SERB REFUGEES FOREIGN MINISTERS OF GREECE, BULGARIA AND ROMANIA IN IOANNINA - IDENTICAL STANDS ON YUGOSLAV CRISIS - GREECE, BULGARIA, ROMANIA FOR LIFTING ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS EASTERN SLAVONIA - CROATIA - KRAJINA SERBS SAY CROATS VIOLATE CEASEFIRE IN EASTERN SLAVONIA AFTER CROATIA'S AGGRESSION ON SERB KRAJINA - TUDJMAN THREATENS SERBS AGAIN - CROATIA STILL REFUSES TO LET SERBS LEAVE KNIN - PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS IN FRONT OF CROATIAN CONSULATE IN TRIESTE C O M M E N T A R I E S - TUDJMAN'S REGIME CELEBRATES EXPULSION OF SERBS FROM KRAJINA, by Nikola Stanojevic - FALSE INFORMATION - CROATIA'S FAVOURITE WEAPON, by Nikola Stanojevic - ICRC SAYS 'MISSING' MUSLIM REFUGEES ARE RECRUITED BY MUSLIM ARMY, by Stevan Cordas FORMER BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA - MUSLIMS GROSSLY VIOLATING INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW - U.N. FORCE IN BOSNIA LOSES PATIENCE WITH MUSLIM OBSTRUCTION - SACIRBEJ ASKS TURKS TO REMAIN IN BOSNIA THE E.U. IN MOSTAR - E.U. MOSTAR ADMINISTRATOR THREATENS TO WITHDRAW EUROPEAN FORCES FROM FOREIGN PRESS - GROWING FEARS FOR FATE OF MISSING SERBS FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAV DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER: YUGOSLAVIA WANTS PEACE S o f i a, Aug 27 (Tanjug) - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia wants peace and immediate cessation of all military operations in former Yugoslavia, Deputy Foreign Minister Radoslav Bulajic told Bulgarian weekly 168 Hours. In a frontpage interview published Sunday, Bulajic underlined that it was now imperative that the warring parties start negotiations, as noone can come out as winner from civil war. Bulajic expressed conviction that the latest U.S. and Contact Group inititive would produce positive results soon. It is important to avoid the use of double standards and the blaming of only one (Serb) party to the conflict, he said. Referring to anti-Yugoslav sanctions, Bulajic said Yugoslavia had fulfilled all requested conditions and there was consequently no reason to maintin the international embargo against it. YUGOSLAV HIGH OFFICIAL ENDS SUCESSFUL VISIT TO WASHINGTON W a s h i n g t o n, Aug 26 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Assistent Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic Friday evening ended his visit to Washington where he attended the memorial servce for the three U.S. diplomats recently killed in Bosnia. During his stay in Washington Jovanovic had a series of meetings with high officials of European countries, including representatives of countries members of the international Contact Group for the former Yugoslavia. Jovanovic had interesting and meaningful talks with U.N and E.U. Mediators for the former Yugoslavia Thorvald Stoltenberg and Carl Bildt and high officials of Italy, Britain and France. American-Yugoslav talks at the level of heads of political departments were held in the State Department yesterday. The talks were attended on the U.S. side by Chris Hill, the newly appointed member of the U.S. negotiating team for the former Yugoslavia and Clinton's representative in the Contact Group, and on the Yugoslav side by the Head of the Political Department at the Foreign Affairs Ministry Milisav Pajic. Talks were conducted in a correct atmosphere and dealt with the peace process in the former Yugoslavia as well as some questions relating to bilateral relations. Jovanovic also had a series of meetings with representatives of the Media. On Thursday he was the guest of the Washington Post where he spoke about the cirisis in the former Yugoslavia, the peace policy of Serbia and of its President and the position of the U.S media towards events in Yugoslavia, and talked with the Editorial Staff of the paper. According to well informed sources that followed the Yugoslav delegation's visit to Washington, these could be the first signs of the U.S. policy adopting a more balanced stand regarding the Yugoslav crisis, its causes and its present development. The same sources said that Jovanovic's stay in the U.S. served as a sort of close-up promotion of the Yugoslav policy and a contribution to its better understanding. YUGOSLAV MINISTER ON ABUSE OF TRAGEDY OF SERB REFUGEES K r a g u j e v a c, Aug. 27 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister without portfolio Margit Savovic said Sunday that the tragedy of the Serb people of Krajina seems to have been made to measure for certain countries to interfere in Yugoslavia's internal affairs and continue efforts to internationalize the allegedly bad position of minorities in Yugoslavia. Commenting allegations that settling refugees in Serbia's Provinces of Kosovo and Metohija, and Vojvodina would disturb the local ethnic structure, Savovic sai that refugees had to be settled where place could be found for their longer or temporary stay. 'The territory of Serbia is unique and indivisible and we need not explain to anyone where we shall settle the 150,000 newly arrived people,' underscored Savovic, who is in charge of human and minority rights. Claims that the idea is to change the ethnic structure of certain regions in Serbia are ridiculous, because the number of refugees settled in certain places is such that it cannot affect the ethnic structure, she said. Savovic described as 'murky' a statement by President of the Hungarian Alliance in Vojvodina Ferenc Cubele at a press conference in Budapest that Yugoslav army officers had ordered Krajina Serbs to flee and come to Vojvodina in order to move into houses of Croats and Hungarians. 'Do the refugees really look like agents sent to do something like that, when they were bombed on the way, and hardly made it to Yugoslavia,' she asked, underscoring that 'there is no question of certain places or houses being taken over.' There have been individual incidents of that kind but the authorities always reacted energetically, Yugoslav Minister Savovic concluded. FOREIGN MINISTERS OF GREECE, BULGARIA AND ROMANIA IN IOANNINA IDENTICAL STANDS ON YUGOSLAV CRISIS A t h e n s, Aug. 26 (Tanjug) - Greece, Bulgaria and Romania agreed in Ioannina at a meeting of their Foreign Ministers on Saturday that the Yugoslav crisis must be resolved strictly through political means and that any use of military force would have disastrous effects on the region. The crisis in former Yugoslavia and the general political situation in the Balkans was the main topic at the talks of the three ministers - Karolos Papoulias of Greece, Georgi Pirinski of Bulgaria and Teodor Melescanu of Romania. Papoulias said that all three sides had assessed that peace in former Yugoslavia should be estabished as soon as possible and only by diplomatic means, Greek Radio and TV stations reported from Ioannina. Pirinski said the Yugoslav crisis was in a critical phase and that any use of military force would bring a real tragedy to the entire region. Piriski said the E.U. should show a stronger initiative and invest additional efforts for ending the crisis in the coming stages of the peace process for the former Yugoslavia. Peace and the establishment of a stable situation in the regionare preconditions for the faster economic development of Balkan countries and their tighter linking, the Bulgarian Minister said. The Greek news agency Ana has learned the communique will include a joint appeal for the lifting of the U.N. Security Council sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. GREECE, BULGARIA, ROMANIA FOR LIFTING ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS I o a n n i n a, Greece, Aug 26 (Tanjug) - Greece, Bulgaria and Romania appealed from the Greek resort of Ioannina late on Saturday for lifting the U.N.'s sanctions against the Yugoslav Federation of Serbia and Montenegro. Foreign Ministers Karlos Papoulias of Greece, Georgi Pirinski of Bulgaria and Teodor Malescanu of Romania said that the sanctions should be lifted as the quest for a peaceful settlement for the crisis was going on, and not after. A joint statement issued from Ioannina said that the three Balkan states would work together and make every effort in international fora to bring peace to former Yugoslavia as soon as possible and, especially, to lift the anti-Yugoslav sanctions. The Ioannina ministerial meeting focused on the promotion of economic cooperation and the situation in former Yugoslavia and in the Balkans as a whole. The joint statement, quoted by Greek Television and Radio stations, expressed the three states' deep concern about dangerous attempts to impose a military solution to the crisis in former Yugoslavia. The Ministers said that the crisis was at a turning point and stressed that Greece, Bulgaria and Romania fully supported all efforts directed at a peaceful and just settlement of the Yugoslav crisis. Speaking at a press conference after the meeting, Papoulias said that the quest for a political settlement that would end the Bosnian war should run parallel with the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia. Pirinski said that peace and stability in the region were prerequisite for a faster economic development of the Balkan states and closer ties among them. EASTERN SLAVONIA - CROATIA KRAJINA SERBS SAY CROATS VIOLATE CEASEFIRE IN EASTERN SLAVONIA V u k o v a r, Aug 26 (Tanjug) - The Croatian Army violated on Saturdaya ceasefire agreement with Serb Krajina forces in the region of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and west Srem, that had taken force at noon local time. At 3:05 p.m. local time (1305 gmt), Croatian troops opened small arms fire on Serb positions wide around the village of sarvas, the Command of the local Serb Krajina Army Corps said. The Corps adhered in full to the provisions of the agreement and did not return fire, the statement said. AFTER CROATIA'S AGGRESSION ON SERB KRAJINA TUDJMAN THREATENS SERBS AGAIN Z a g r e b, Aug 27 (Tanjug) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman once again threatened Serbs with war, stating that Croatian army would take eastern Slavonia and Baranja too, in the east of the Republic of Serb Krajina. If the 'liberation' of eastern Slavonia and Baranja does not proceed peacefully and with the help of the international community, there will be new 'storms', Tudjman said Saturday evening in the coastal town of Split, i.e. the very day on which the ceasefire agreement for Sector East concluded by Croatian and RSK representatives came into force. He made the statement at a rally organized in Split for the arrival of the first train via the seized Serb town of Knin. This event is used by Croatian autrhorities to create mass euphoria following the bloody 'storm' operation in Krajina launched on August 4, during which about a quarter of a million Serbs were forced to flee from their centuries-old home land in southern and northern parts of RSK. In the atmosphere of unbridled nationalism prevailing in Croatia for the past several weeks, Tudjman said triumphantly that even the big powers must from now on consider Croatia as a military power. Zagreb intends to bring back hundreds of thousands of Croat emigrants from all over the world and settle them in 'liberated' (Serb) areas, which will include eastern Slavonia and Baranja in a few months. CROATIA STILL REFUSES TO LET SERBS LEAVE KNIN B e l g r a d e, Aug 27 (Tanjug) - The Croatian regime is still preventing hundreds of Serbs sheltered with the U.N. in Knin from leaving, demanding the surrender of alleged war criminals. There are 786 Serbs in the U.N. compound in Knin, who have been given refuge there by the local U.N. Commander, Canadian Gen. Alain Forand, from Croatia's invasion earlier this month. Croatia's ultimatum is aggravating the position not only of the displaced Serbs, but also of the U.N. personnel in Knin, who are facing growing difficulties with accommoding them. Gen. Forand told the AFP on Sunday that he was waiting for clear and precise directions what to do to speed up the solution of the problem, fearing a further worsening of the situation. He explained that the refugees did not understand why they were not being allowed to leave, they were demoralised and there was even talk of a hunger strike. Forand added that among the refugees there were old people who were falling ill because of hygiene problems. An overwhelming majority of the Serbs in the U.N. compound wish to leave Croatia, and their departure had been scheduled for Saturday morning. The Zagreb regime blocked it, however, and informed U.N. Special Envoy for former Yugoslavia Yasushi Akashi in writing that none would be allowed to leave until 65 of their number were handed over to Croatian authorities on suspicion of being guilty of war crimes. The U.N. is demanding that Zagreb submit a detailed list of the suspects with a specific description of what they are charged with. The U.N. is further asking that the suspects be questioned at the U.N. base in Knin, in the presence of an international observer. Croatia has complied with neither of the requests. Gen. Alain Forand again repeated his resolve to resist the Croatian intransigence. He vowed that nobody would leave the compound without his written permission, and that the U.N. would not yield on a principle concerning human rights. PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS IN FRONT OF CROATIAN CONSULATE IN TRIESTE B e l g r a d e, Aug 27 (Tanjug) - A mass demonstration was held Saturday in front of the Croatian Consulate in Trieste, in protest against Croatia's aggression on Serb Krajina and crimes committed over Serb refugees. The demonstration was organized by the Italian Association For Peace and was attended by representatives of nearly all Italian political parties, and trade, youth, peace and other organizations. The organizers issued an appeal for economic boycotting of Croatia and its exclusion from all international economic organizations. The Association expressed disappointment at the hypocrisy of the international community which condemned the pogrom of fleeing Serb civilians only verbally. The only adequate reaction came from the Co-Chairman of the Geneva Conference Carl Bildt, who proposed that Croatian President Franjo Tudjman be included in the list of war criminals, the Association stated. Croatia's crimes must not be ignored due to economic interests of western powers, who only wish to sell arms and then seize business opportunities when reconstrution of war-devastated regions begins, the Association said. The Association recommended to the Trieste Chamber of Economy to cancel its participation in the Zagreb fair in autumn as a first concrete step to this end. C O M M E N T A R I E S TUDJMAN'S REGIME CELEBRATES EXPULSION OF SERBS FROM KRAJINA by Nikola Stanojevic Z a g r e b, Aug 27 (Tanjug) - The Tudjman regime's celebration of the expulsion of Serbs from Krajina culminated on Saturday in a Zagreb-Split train ride, Croatia's first through Serb Krajina. The victory ride was marked with unprecedented anti-Serb chauvinist sentiments, with the travellers and the multitude assembled along the track gloating at Croatia's newly-acquired ethnic purity. Many of the statements made by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and his associates at stops along the way should give rise to deep concern on the part of the democratic world. Their speeches again clearly showed that the present regime aspires to emulate the fascist Independent State of Croatia (NDH) which existed during World War Two and where more than a million Serbs were murdered in an effort to destroy them as a nation. Tudjman's speeches in Zagreb, Karlovac, Gospic, Knin and Split smacked strongly of a chauvinist euphoria, clothed in a thesis that the Serbs had 'risen against the Croatian regime' and the Croatian people whom they had 'oppressed through history'. Tudjman explained that Croatia had 'suffered through the aggression of the Serb people... who had come to this area three and a half centuries ago.' Serbs had in fact settled in the area much earlier, as evident from the fact that their first monasteries in Serb Krajina date as far back as the early 14th century (the Krupa monastery, for instance, was built in 1317). Tudjman 'the historian' said that in 1941, the Serbs in Knin had 'signed an agreement with Italy against the NDH, with fascist Italy to fight all things Croatian,' a statement apparently designed to obscure Croatia's fascist past. As if this were not enough to prove the fascist basis and roots of his regime, Tudjman quoted figures to show that, 'in Croatia's heartland', viz. Knin, in 1991, the population was barely 14 per cent Croat, and 86 percent Serb. However, Tudjman exulted in the fact that the 'Serbs have just vanished from this area, as if they never lived here at all', driven away by the Croatian Army's operation storm, which did not give them time even to collect 'their dirty currency and their dirty undewear'. He eulogised the Croatian war machine, exclaiming that 'there can be no going back to what once was: a cancer spreading from the living body of Croatia to destroy the Croatian national spirit, to prevent the Croats from being alone, masters in their own land'. The statement laid bare the true aim of his regime, which is to have an ethnically pure Croatia. Croatia's invasion of Serb Krajina has displaced a quarter of a million Serbs, leaving behind barely three percent of the original Serb community, which had accounted for 22 percent of Croatia's population before Tudjman came to power in 1990. Tudjman, who is gaining a reputation in the world as a Croatian Duce (after Italy's notorious Il Duce, Benito Mussolini), threatened Serbs in eastern Slavonia with the same fate as that meted out to the rest of Serb Krajina, boasting of Croatia being a military power to be reckoned with. FALSE INFORMATION - CROATIA'S FAVOURITE WEAPON by Nikola Stanojevic Z a g r e b, Aug. 27 (Tanjug) - It can be seen following Croatia's aggression on Krajina, which resulted in the exodus of about 250,000 Serbs, that Croatia's favourite weapon is false information. Pressured by irrefutable evidence of murdered civilians, torching of Serb houses, and looting throughout Krajina, Tudjman's regime stammed out: 'There were... individual incidents,' said certain Government members, and then again - silence. An additional 'life-saving' explanation was found subsequently for the torching and destruction of Serb houses: this was done by 'desperate' Croatian refugees when they saw 'the ruins and burnt remains of their own homes.' In time, explanations evolved, so that Foreign Minister Mate Granic said he had heard that 'Serbs set fire to their own homes.' All Croatia now needs to do is find the 'guilty party' who bombed columns of fleeing refugees, murdered elderly inmates of a home for the retarded near Topusko, massacred civilians in the village of Zagrovic, murdered people and set them on fire in their own homes... The Croatian authorities claim: 'If there had indeed been individual incidents...the army did not take part.' An example immediately denies this false information. Namely, Croatian troops killed two civilians, beat another, and set fire to his house in the village of Kakanj two weeks after the aggression on Krajina, in plain view of E.U. observers. Chief of operative administration of the Croatian Army General Staff, Gen. Vinko Vrbanec praised the 'excellent propaganda activities' of the Defense Ministry's political administration headed by Gen. Ivan Tolj. Tolj, a general and a poet, gave press conferences during the attack on Serb Krajina which were 'poetically inspired.' 'Information and false information were placed at the right time,' a pleased Gen. Vrbanec said. Anything that does not fit into such information, intertwined with many falsehoods, is proclaimed by Croatian officials and public media as a 'special war' against Croatia. Criticisms are particularly aimed at international humanitarian organizations and members of the U.N. peace force. The regime is especially irritated by U.N. Spokesman in Zagreb Christopher Gunness, a man who merely passes on findings of others, although he had personally seen on Aug. 20 bodies of a murdered men and a woman in civilian clothing on the road between Dvor and Glina. On Friday, Aug. 18, the U.N. received a report on findings of bodies of people killed with shots in the head. The U.N. still does not know if they were civilians or not, and it is possible that they were executions, Gunness said. Gunness underscored that the Croatian Army had in many places violated human rights, which the international community could not accept. Many reports from all over the world send warnings to Croatia. Zagreb was especially disturbed that Croatia's proven friend, German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, had criciticized his proteges for the looting, torching and destruction in Krajina. ICRC SAYS 'MISSING' MUSLIM REFUGEES ARE RECRUITED BY MUSLIM ARMY by Stevan Cordas G e n e v a, Aug 26 (tanjug) - Several thousand 'missing' Muslim refugees from former Muslim enclaves of Zepa and Srebrenica, allegedly killed by Bosnian Serbs, have been recruited in the Muslim Army it can be deduced from the report of the ICRC. In its latest bulletin published in Geneva, the ICRC said that some 30,000 Muslims left Zepa and Srebrenica. The bulletin said thatred cross representatives in Bosnia had received some 10,000 requests from people asking the organisation to help them find their missing cousins, fathers, brohers and sons. While trying to find out where the several thousand missing men were, red cross representatives were informed by Sarajevo Muslim authorities that they had all been mobilised, i.e. recruited into the Muslim Army, and that 'they were unable to contact their families'. The ICRC bulletin did not specify how many of the refugees from Srebrenica and Zepa were recruited. The report only said there were several thousand of them. However, on the basis of the 10,000 requests filed it is not difficult to determine how many of them had donned on Muslim uniforms. There were 3,000 members of the regular Muslim Army among the 30,000 refugees from Srebrenica and Zepa, it stands in the last report of the outgoing U.N. Human Righs Rapporteur for the former Yugoslavia Tadeusz Mazowiecki. The U.S. representative to the U.N. Madeleine Albright recently called on the U.N. Security Council to conduct an urgent investigation into the missing Muslim refugees from Zepa and Srebrenica. In her usual crude way she accused the Bosnian Serbs, and to substantiate the accusations alleged the existence of mass Muslim graves. The fabricated and unproven stories about Muslim refugees from Zepa and Srebrenica were used by some to counterbalance the enormous humanitarian tragedy of the Krajina Serbs. The reaction of all those who insisted on accusing Bosnian Serbs of commiting genocide against the Muslims in Srebrenica and Zepa without any proof remains to be seen. FORMER BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA MUSLIMS GROSSLY VIOLATING INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW B e l g r a d e, Aug. 26 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Health Minister Dragan Kalinic addressed a letter Saturday to ICRC Pale Office head Sandro Barana warning him that Muslims were grossly violating the norms of international humanitarian law. 'Muslim artillery on Friday hit a Serb Sarajevo hospital facility in Kasindol, seriously injuring four civilians - two medical staff and two patients - who are in critical condition. There was great material damage to the building as well,' said the letter as carried by the Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA. 'There was no reason for the hospital, which was clearly marked with a Red Cross, to be targetted by the military,' he said in the letter. It was evidently the Muslim Army's intention yet again to murder civilians, patients and medical staff, the Minister said. He asked Barana to inform the ICRC Headquarters in Geneva about the attack on the Kasindol hospital and to condemn this gross violation of international humanitarian law. U.N. FORCE IN BOSNIA LOSES PATIENCE WITH MUSLIM OBSTRUCTION B e l g r a d e, Aug 26 (Tanjug) - The UNPROFOR said on Saturday its patience was wearing thin with the Muslim Government's obstruction of the deployment and supplies for the Rapid Reaction Force (RRF). 'We are simply not being allowed to get our own logistics convoys for the sustenance of the RRF on mount Igman to move,' Reuters quotes U.N. Spokesman Chris Vernon as saying. 'We are not happy and tempers are getting shorter... If there is not a solution to the freedom of movement thing we will have to consider ways to sustain the... soldiers,' Vernon said. Reuters said that UNPROFOR might move to resupply its men without the Muslim Sarajevo Government's consent. The RRF, which numbers 10,000 mostly British and French troops, has been set up to prevent attacks on u.n. troops, convoys and facilities in Bosnia, Reuters said. Their deployment has been anything but rapid, however. About 500 RRF troops arrived on Mt Igman in July, but the Muslim Government has been blocking the delivery of vital equipment and supplies. U.N. officials said on Saturday that four 155 mm guns for the RRF had arrived on Mt Igman in the morning, completing the deployment of the artillery. However, the deployment of the force is still blocked. U.N. Spokesman Alexander Ivanko said that Muslim authorities had halted 29 armoured personnel carriers at a checkpoint near Gornji Vakuf in central Bosnia. Reuters said that the bulk of the RRF, based in Tomislavgrad in western Bosnia, was having supply problems and that U.N. officials had spent weeks negotiating with the Muslim Government to iron them out. SACIRBEJ ASKS TURKS TO REMAIN IN BOSNIA A n k a r a, Aug. 26 (Tanjug) - The Sarajevo Muslim Government is urging Turkey not to withdraw its troops from Bosnia if UNPROFOR pulls out of that former Yugoslav Republic. Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbej told Turkish reporters in Washington that Turkey's presence in Bosnia was welcome even if the peacekeepers left, Ankara papers said on Saturday. 'We definitely consider Turkey a friendly country. Turkey can continue playing a positive role in Bosnia within UNPROFOR, but also outside it,' Sacirbej said, but did not elaborate. He did not say what this practically meant, especially if peacekeepers withdrew. Sacirbej again criticized the U.N. peace force in Bosnia. He said UNPROFOR was used as 'an excuse to maintain the arms embargo,' but in fact 'to weaken the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia.' THE E.U. IN MOSTAR E.U. MOSTAR ADMINISTRATOR THREATENS TO WITHDRAW EUROPEAN FORCES B e l g r a d e, Aug 26 (Tanjug) - The European Administrator for Mostar threatend Friday to withdraw international police forces from the southern Bosnian city divided between Muslims and Croats unless local Croats dropped a blockade on their Muslim neighbours. In a statement to German Radio Hans Koschnik blamed Croats for keeping the two communities living in separate ghettos, limiting Muslims' access to the western part of the city and blocking their efforts to return to homes they had fled, Reuter reports. Local Croats were also refusing to forge a common police force with the Muslims and European officials insisting that only Croat officers patrol their part of the city. Koschnik said that there would be no unified city of Mostar without a unified police nor would there be freedom of movement of the population from one to the other side of the Neretva river. FROM FOREIGN PRESS GROWING FEARS FOR FATE OF MISSING SERBS L o n d o n, Aug. 27 (Tanjug) - Nothing is still known of the fate of about 10,000 Serbs caught in the humanitarian disaster caused by Croatia's attack on Krajina, London's Sunday Telegraph said today. It is suspected that they disappeared somewhere along their refugee route and U.N. and ICRC officials fear that they might be dead, the daily said. The Croatian authorities reject such accusations. However, a U.N. official who wished to remain anonymous told the London daily that he considered Croatia responsible for the lives of these people, on the grounds of his experience with the region of western Slavonija. Following Croatia's aggression on southern and northern parts of the Republic of Serb Krajina, which began on Aug. 4, about 250,000 Serbs fled their ancestral lands and Croatian troops continued to murder the Serb civilians that remained and torched their houses - all this has been confirmed in U.N. reports. =============================================================== -- I speak for no one and no one speaks for me -- D. D. Chukurov ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com ===============================================================