POZEGA, Jan 17 (Hina) - The primate of the Catholic Church in Bosnia, Cardinal Vinko Puljic, said on Wednesday neither Croatia nor the international community had a strategy for the return of displaced Bosnian Croats to their pre-war
homes. "The international community, even Croatia, is busy with the return of Serbs to Croatia and is doing little for the return of Croats from Bosnia to their homes," he told reporters in the eastern Croatian town of Pozega, where many displaced Bosnian Croats are accommodated. "These people have nowhere to either return or take refuge. They become vagabonds from house to house," said the cardinal. "They lost the pensions they received in Bosnia and Herzegovina, living here with practically nothing. The Croatian state, which promised them social help until the pension issue was resolved, hasn't kept its promise," Cardinal Puljic said. He hoped this year represe
POZEGA, Jan 17 (Hina) - The primate of the Catholic Church in
Bosnia, Cardinal Vinko Puljic, said on Wednesday neither Croatia
nor the international community had a strategy for the return of
displaced Bosnian Croats to their pre-war homes.
"The international community, even Croatia, is busy with the return
of Serbs to Croatia and is doing little for the return of Croats from
Bosnia to their homes," he told reporters in the eastern Croatian
town of Pozega, where many displaced Bosnian Croats are
accommodated.
"These people have nowhere to either return or take refuge. They
become vagabonds from house to house," said the cardinal.
"They lost the pensions they received in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
living here with practically nothing. The Croatian state, which
promised them social help until the pension issue was resolved,
hasn't kept its promise," Cardinal Puljic said.
He hoped this year representatives of the international community,
Croatia, and Bosnia's politicians would invest more joint effort to
help those people.
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