DOCUMENTARY ON MISSING CROATIAN SERBS SHOWN IN BOROVO

BOROVO, Sept 14 (Hina) - A documentary by Bogdan Rkman, entitled "The Cry of Silence", about the fate of Croatian Serbs who went missing after the 1995 military-police operations "Flash" and "Storm", was shown for the first time in Borovo near the eastern town of Vukovar on Friday. The film was produced by an association gathering families of missing and abducted Vukovar residents, which organised the premiere. The team which shot the film spent two weeks touring the central regions of Lika and Banovina, the southern town of Knin, and western Slavonia, witnessing with their cameras to the "tragedy of a dozen Serb families and the poor condition of individual and mass grave sites", the association's president Ruzica Spasic said. The film will be shown in Belgrade and Banja Luka in the next three months, she said. The Vukovar association is currently looking for 100 Croatian Serbs. Spasic believes this is a very small number, even in the case of Vukovar, where 138 Serbs were reported missing alone. The Belgrade-based association "Veritas" estimates that close to 3,000 Serbs went missing in Croatia during the war, Spasic said, adding she believed the number of was much higher. Spasic expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of care for missing Serbs both Croatia and Yugoslavia have demonstrated. "It seems no one likes us and no one in the country we live in wants to do something to help our families. None of the government associations is working to establish a data base for missing Serbs, and the situation is the same in Yugoslavia...," she said before the showing of the film. The film was financed by the International commission for missing persons from Sarajevo. The premiere was attended by the head of the commission's office in the Bosnian capital, Gordon Bacon, and political representatives of Croatian Serbs. (hina) rml