BOSNIAN CROATS N MOSTAR STAGE RALLY URGING CESSATION OF ARRESTS

BOSNIAN CROATS N MOSTAR STAGE RALLY URGING CESSATION OF ARRESTS MOSTAR, Oct 5 (Hina) - The Centre for the protection of the dignity of the Homeland Defence War in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Thursday staged a rally in Mostar, requesting representatives of the international community and officials of the Bosnian Federation and Bosnia-Herzegovina to put an end to the arrests of Croats in this country, and for light to be shed on last year's murder of the Federation's deputy interior minister, Jozo Leutar. They requested of judicial bodies in the country and the Bosnian Federation, as well as the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal, to issue warrants for the arrest of persons involved in war crimes against Croats in Bosnia. The organisers of the protest aired through loudspeakers segments of an interview Bosnian Croat indictee in The Hague, Mladen Naletilic Tuta, gave to a local radio. His message to Croats that the time for guns was over and people should now use a peaceful, Ghandi-like resistance towards injustice, was received with applause from the protesters. Several speakers at the rally accused the Bosniak (Muslim) political leadership and Alija Izetbegovic of wishing to create a Muslim state in Bosnia-Herzegovina and exile Croats. The gathered people were carrying banners saying The Hague was a dungeon for Croats and a new Bleiburg. (hina) lml