PEOPLE CALLING IN TO REPORT ALLEGED PAST CRIMES AGAINST SERB CIVILIANS

PEOPLE CALLING IN TO REPORT ALLEGED PAST CRIMES AGAINST SERB CIVILIANS ZAGREB, Oct 9 (Hina) - Several persons claiming to have eyewitnesses the killing of Serb civilians in 1991 near Marino Selo (western Slavonia region) have called the Pozega County State Attorney's Office expressing readiness to testify, Pozega State Attorney Rudolf Macek told Hina Monday. People began calling after recent media reports on the reopening of the "Pakracka poljana" case connected with the disappearance and killing of Serb civilians near Marino Selo, Macek said, stressing he had received indictments connected with the case at the beginning of the summer from colleagues in Bjelovar. Macek said that due to much unclarity concrete measures have still not been initiated, but the State Attorney's Office and police "are working intensively on the case". "We do not wish to give out information until we establish the basic elements of the charges, such as the exact location of the crime, the number of victims, etc." Macek asserted. The case was reopened after a statement by Justice Minister Stjepan Ivanisevic that the case was being looked at again. Deputy State Attorney Slavko Zadnik said the minister was at the time "probably thinking about" the case of Serb civilians killed in a camp near Marino Selo in 1991, after which the bodies had been dumped in a fish-farm. (hina) lml