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BosNet NEWS: (June 27, 1996)
Date: 96-06-27
CONTENTS
[01] THE USA: B-H GAVE UP MILITARY-INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION WITH IRAN
[02] B.GHALI CRITICIZES CROATIA FOR VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF SERBS
[03] FORUM OF THE FEDERATION - ON FINANCES AND DEFENCE
[04] KARADZIC - REMAINS OR GOES
[05] COMMISSION OF THE US CONGRESS - "IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON FRY"
[06] TOKAC - STATEMENTS OF E. REHN ARE NOT ACCIDENTALLY SUPERFICIAL
[01] THE USA: B-H GAVE UP MILITARY-INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION WITH IRAN
Washington, June 26, 1996 (Press TWRA)
The USA announced that
Bosnian govt. decided to break all military and intelligence
connections with Iran. The USA welcomes the decision of Sarajevo
but it does not hold them enough to remove all barriers to start
with about USD one billion worth "train and equip" program for the
B-H Federation army. A. Izetbegovic and the US under-secretary
Kornblum will discuss today the decision of the B-H authorities
to stop military-intelligence cooperation with Teheran. (end) A.S.
[02] B. GHALI CRITICIZES CROATIA FOR VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF SERBS
New York, Zagreb, June 27, 1996 (Press TWRA)
UN secr. general B.
Ghali released a report on Croatia's first this year's term, made
according to the data of UNHCR provided by E. Rehn, EUMM, ICRC,
local and international human right organizations.
Croatian authorities have not taken adequate securitymeasures in UN ex-sectors. The lack of support measures (including
general amnesty for ex-soldiers of "Krajina") for return of Serbs,
warns of unfavourable atmosphere for their massive return
encouraging their fear. Of 200,000 Serbs fled in spring and summer
last year, 7065 have returned while the return of Croats to the
same area is substantial whic is populated with Croats from
Bosnia, too. Particularly worrying is the lack of law, killings,
intimidations, rapes, plunders particularly around Knin. Since the
beginning of the year, Croatian government has recorded 12
murders, 89 burnt down/mined houses, 849 major plunders and
barbaric looting of three Orthodox churches. The crimes are told
to be committed by gangs, among them Croats soldiers in uniforms.
He points at "vagueness in the reports of Croatioan govt. in the
part referring to the court procedures against violators of Serbs'
rights. So "concern over the slow progress in investigation and
prosecution of many perpetrators of crimes against Serb population
is justified." Sporadic expelling the Serbs from the flats illegal
occupying of their property, problems with issuing personal
documents, double standards in privileges for return to the
liberated areas, getting a job, problems in procedures to obtain
return permit, are also stated. The ICTY prosecutors are not
enabled investigation in the documents regarding Croatian military
operations. At the end, Ghali praised Croatia for its care for
elderly Serbs in the liberated area, applying various initiatives
for human right protection and cooperation with international
bodies for human rights.
To oppose Ghali's claim, Croats are also expelled from theirflats. A statement of HHO (Croatian Helsinki Committee) signed by
president and executive director of HHO, Cicak and Petar Mrkalj
confirms such a case. A veteran Ljubo Mikulcic broke into the flat
of a displaced person from Knin Frano Gugo, with 15 druken men.
They hit F.Gugo and
along with his wife drove him out from the flat in the same way
the drunken Serbs expelled them from Knin. Mikulcic, who showed
the list of 28 families to be driven out from their flats in Split
by the end of this month, with approval of commission of Croatian
army.
Military and civil police refused to protect Gugo and his family.
This month at the "Esplanada" hotel (Zagreb) HHO plannedgathering of 300 Croats and Serbs to discuss "Srbs in Croatia
yesterday, today and tomorrow." Organizers - I.Z. Cicak and Ivo
Banac (prof. of hisotry at Yale University, born in Dubrovnik)
prostponed the meeting after being exposed to a severe campaign of
media close to Croatian govt. which threatened the security of the
attendants. Rigid Croat nationalist, close to F. Tudjman's regime
Tudjman, Dubravko Horvatic was leading in it: in his paper
"Hrvatsko slovo," hw wrote: "Those who went with their tanks
against Croatian people should be put before a firing squad as
well as those who call them either from the USA or Croatia as so-
called Croats. (end) A.S.
[03] FORUM OF THE FEDERATION - ON FINANCES AND DEFENCE
Sarajevo, June 27, 1996 (press TWRA)
Session of the Forum of
Federation began in Sarajevo today to solve the issues of finances
and defence of Federation. The US under secretary J. Kornblum who
previously talked with S. Milosevic in Belgrade and F. Tudjman in
Zagreb arrives today in official visit to B-H. and will be
welcomed by the B-H president A. Izetbegovic. (end ) M.S.
[04] KARADZIC - REMAINS OR GOES
Sarajevo, June 27, 1996 (Press TWRA)
"Message that Karadzic must
go from the post is clearly understood at Pale & Belgrade, though
no conditions to meet the demands are set, nor C. Bildt is ready
to talk about them. Karadzic's replacement is the first step on
the way to the Hague," said Bildt's office spokesman McClay at the
press conference today.
Banjaluka - Prime minister of the "Republic of Srpska" GojkoKlickovic said at the session of B-H Serb entity govt. that
Karadzic would not resign from the presidential post of this self-
styled Republic before the elections in B-H scheduled for June 14.
Klickovic added that after the elections, Karadzic will " perform
only the party's work. (end) M.S.
[05] COMMISSION OF THE US CONGRESS - "IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON FRY"
Washington, June 27, 1996 (Press TWRA)
In a letter which a
Commission for cooperation and security in Europe of the US
Congress addressed to the US ambassador to the UN Madleine
Albright, there is a demand that "the USA immediatelly require
additional sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro, as they
refused to arrest Mile Mrksic, Miroslav Radic and Veselin
Sljivancanin accused of killing 260 civilians in Vukovar."
Sanctions should be gradually increasedun till "FRY" starts
cooperating with ICTY. As stated in the letter, these sanctions
would also be approval to B-H which recently arrested two Bosniaks
charged of the war crimes and be a encouragement for Croatia for
further cooperation with the Tribunal." The end of the letter
says: "The relation of 'FRY' on one and Croatia and B-H on the
other side cannot be compared." (end) M.S.
[06] TOKAC - STATEMENTS OF E. REHN ARE NOT ACCIDENTALLY SUPERFICIAL
Zagreb, June 27, 1996 (Press TWRA)
President of the state
commission for investigation of war crimes in B-H commented in his
interview for the Rijeka "Novi list" the reports of the UN special
rapporteur Elisabeth Rehn at the Conference on human rights in
Geneva. describing it as "superficial and ungrounded."
"Particularly scandalous part of her report speaks about the
occirrences in Srebrenica. Classic camps, formed after the fall of
that town in which hundreds of Bosniaks, including refugees from
Zepa were exposed to the most severe torture, starvation and
maltreatment, she calls "protective captivity". (...) The
impression is that that the problem of Srebrenica, as one of the
greatest sites of mass crimes in Europe after 1945 takes very
superficially, walking around hills with no results It was a
classical parade for journalists with nothing behind, no facts, no
figures, no names of the responsible," concluded Tokac. (end) A.S.
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