INT. REPS. IN BOSNIA COMMENT ON LAST WEEK'S INCIDENTS

MOSTAR, April 11 (Hina) - International representatives in southern Bosnia have accused Croat policemen in Herzegovina- Neretva Canton and soldiers of the Croat Defence Council of having organised demonstrations against the establishment of transitional administration in Mostar's Hercegovacka Banka. Several members of NATO's peace-keeping Stabilisation Force, local police and civilians were injured in incidents which caused considerable damage in several parts of Herzegovina last Friday. Video footage of the demonstrations shows people who are either police or soldiers, the commander of SFOR's multinational division for sector south-east, French General Robert Meille, told reporters in Mostar today. The violence was organised, an investigation is in progress and the perpetrators will be prosecuted, he added. The head of the international High Representative's local office in Mostar, Colin Munroe, said cantonal police had followed high school children inciting them to organise demonstrations. He declined to say what the documentation SFOR seized in Hercegovacka Banka showed but said the bank's transactions had been very suspicious. Munroe also declined to comment on an article in Nacional, a Croatian weekly which linked Hercegovacka Banka with the murder of the Jozo Leutar, deputy interior minister of one of Bosnia's two entities, the Croat-Muslim federation. However, he conceded Nacional was sometimes better informed than the international community. The incidents are detrimental to the economy and honest Croats in Herzegovina, he said. Munroe's advice to Hercegovacka Banka clients was to open accounts with other banks as soon as possible. International representatives also condemned the planting of an explosive in the yard of brothers Mladen and Jerko Ivankovic Lijanovic, federal and state officials, in the southern town of Siroki Brijeg on Tuesday morning. They accused the Croat National Congress, which established Bosnian Croat self-rule two months ago, of the incident. (hina) ha