ZAGREB, Jan 19 (Hina) - President of the Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) Zarko Puhovski said Friday refugees who wish to return and are returning to Croatia are in many places facing technical problems behind which is politics, so
due to the consequences of war the returnees are in conflict with local residents. The news conference at which Puhovski spoke was attended by civil associations and representatives of international organisations, as well as representatives from Yugoslavia. We wanted to show our colleagues from Yugoslavia that the Croatian state administration is not callous towards the issue of return, Puhovski said, adding the returnees need to be ensured a visit to their property and the opportunity to sell it. Puhovski recalled the HHO was trying to gather information on the burial sites of those killed between 1991 and 1995. Together with the Serbian HHO we are searching for information on the basis of which the l
ZAGREB, Jan 19 (Hina) - President of the Croatian Helsinki
Committee (HHO) Zarko Puhovski said Friday refugees who wish to
return and are returning to Croatia are in many places facing
technical problems behind which is politics, so due to the
consequences of war the returnees are in conflict with local
residents.
The news conference at which Puhovski spoke was attended by civil
associations and representatives of international organisations,
as well as representatives from Yugoslavia.
We wanted to show our colleagues from Yugoslavia that the Croatian
state administration is not callous towards the issue of return,
Puhovski said, adding the returnees need to be ensured a visit to
their property and the opportunity to sell it.
Puhovski recalled the HHO was trying to gather information on the
burial sites of those killed between 1991 and 1995. Together with
the Serbian HHO we are searching for information on the basis of
which the locations of possible liquidations could be found.
He stressed the data would be forwarded to competent bodies with the
aim of disclosing possible war crimes suspects.
The Croatian government authorities did not request of the HHO for
information about Croatian liberation operations "Flash" and
"Storm", but nevertheless the organisation had sent data to
ministries.
The conference was also attended by representatives of the Croatian
foreign and reconstruction ministries, Organisation for Security
and Cooperation in Europe, UNHCR and the international red cross.
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