APEL CENTRE CRITICISES U.S. ATTITUDE TOWARDS WAR IN CROATIA

ZAGREB, May 5 (Hina) - The Apel Centre, a Croatian association of families of missing and imprisoned persons, on Friday issued a statement, on the occasion of the United States' donation of a DNK analysis machine to the Zagreb University Hospital, criticising the attitude of the US towards the war in Croatia and missing persons. Chairman of the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP), senator Bob Dole, on Friday donated a million dollars worth DNA analysis apparatus to the Zagreb University Hospital, to facilitate the identification of remains of victims of the Homeland War. "The donation of the sophisticated equipment for the identification of remains ... is a valuable gift which will contribute to solving many tragic fates, but it is obvious that it was simpler to Senator Dole to gather funds ... than convince those responsible on all sides that it is moral and humane to bury the dead and inform their families and states about it," Apel said. "With a little good will of Uncle Sam a peaceful solution could have been yielded in the region of the former Yugoslavia .. Donated machines ten years after committed crimes is proof of distorted moral principles of those who heed themselves the most powerful and most democratic country in the world," the statement concluded. (hina) lml mm