MOSTAR: UN MISSION STRIPS TWO POLICEMEN OF AUTHORITIES

MOSTAR, April 24 (Hina) - The U.N. Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina has stripped two policemen - Almir Nuhic from Konjic and Ante Kresic from Stolac - of their authority to perform police duties, the spokeswoman for the U.N. Mission Office in Mostar, Kirsten Haupt, said on Wednesday. #L# Haupt explained that the U.N. Mission had checked up war files and established that Nuhic was involved in the activities surrounding the Celebici war camp (near Konjic). The Celebici war camp is considered to be one of larger camps in Herzegovina where Bosniak forces and war authorities held Croats and Serbs, some of whom - according to Croatian sources - were killed there. Kresic has been stripped of police authorities because he has been indicted by the Mostar Canton Court for crimes committed against Bosniaks in Stolac in 1993. Kresic is now awaiting trial, Haupt said. (hina) sp sb