MINISTER LUCIN: LAST WEEK'S OPERATION ENDS FOR POLICE

ZAGREB, Sept 18 (Hina) - Croatian Interior Minister Sime Lucin on Monday confirmed that police ended an operation in which 12 persons accused of war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and of organised and other crimes, were arrested last week. "It is up to the State Prosecutor's Office whether there would be other operations", Minister Lucin said after a session of the Croatian national parliament's interior policy and national security committee. Zadar's Court issued arrest warrants for two suspects of crimes committed in Bosnia's village Ahmici who are on the run, Lucin added. He once again denied allegations about the existence of a list of names of 132 persons who are to be arrested, as well as about the mutiny of members of the Interior Ministry's special unit who are dissatisfied with the arrests. "There is nothing to be said. All this is a part of the same story", Minister Lucin told reporters, adding such information were being published again, regardless of the fact the police had already denied them. President of the committee Djurdja Adlesic said Minister Lucin told the session that everything during the operation was in line with the law, and that all suspects would undergo a court process. She stressed that all those participating in the creation of public opinion must take their share of responsibility "considering all the clumsiness which occurred in the process of informing on the operation". (hina) it jn