SLAVONSKI BROD, Oct 6 (Hina) - A co-ordinating body of associations of Bosnian Croat refugees who fled to Croatia on Sunday held a protest rally in the eastern Croatian town of Slavonski Brod to warn about their difficult
situation.
SLAVONSKI BROD, Oct 6 (Hina) - A co-ordinating body of associations
of Bosnian Croat refugees who fled to Croatia on Sunday held a
protest rally in the eastern Croatian town of Slavonski Brod to warn
about their difficult situation. #L#
The refugees who gathered at the Slavonski Brod rally on the
occasion of the tenth anniversary of the exodus of about 180,000
people from Bosnian Posavina (the right side of the Sava River
Valley) said that little had been done to help them solve their
existential problems and remove war consequences.
The co-ordinating body's leader, Tomo Aracic, said people were
facing uncertain future and some of them could not still return to
their pre-war flats or did not receive pensions.
The leader of the association of refugees from Bosnian Posavina,
Mato Gogic, said it was untrue that Posavina residents did not want
to return to their hometowns and villages, but he criticised
Bosnian and Croatian authorities as well as the international
community for having done too little to facilitate refugee
returns.
After a mass in the Franciscan monastery, an appeal was read out
urging Sarajevo and Zagreb to show more understanding for the
refugees' problems. The refugees expect of the international
community to give more assistance to the two countries' authorities
in their bids to solve refugees' problems.
(hina) ms