OHR AND PRLIC ON ICTY INVESTIGATION

MOSTAR, Aug 22 (Hina) - All war crimes committed in Bosnia- Herzegovina should be prosecuted, regardless of the nationality of the perpetrators, the spokeswoman of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in the southern Bosnia-Herzegovina town of Mostar, Avis Benes said Wednesday. She commented on Tuesday's statement of Croatian First Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic according to which the war crimes tribunal in The Hague requested documents on the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, namely that the ICTY Prosecutor's Office was opening the issue of Mostar, particularly the issue of concentration camps in Herzegovina, for which somebody would have to assume the responsibility. Granic mentioned Jadranko Prlic as one of the 30 persons wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). At the time the concentration camps for Bosniaks in Herzegovina were formed, Prlic was the prime minister of the then "Croatian Republic Herceg-Bosna". Prlic told today's issued of Sarajevo's daily Dnevni Avaz he would appear before the ICTY if the tribunal summed him. He said the Herceg-Bosna government never ordered the forming of the camps. (hina) it sb