36 BUGOJNO CROATS BURIED IN WITH HIGH HONOURS

BUGOJNO, Apr 15 (Hina) - Several thousands of displaced Bosnian Croats gathered in the central Bosnian town of Bugojno on Thursday to pay the last respects to the recently exhumed remains of 36 Bugojno Croats, victims of Muslim crimes committed in Bosnia's Croat-Muslim conflict in 1993. The head of the Catholic Church in Bosnia, Sarajevo Archbishop Vinko Puljic, told the gathering the boxes containing the remains of the 36 victims were the silent witnesses of the Croat-Muslim conflict's evil. The victims included women, the elderly and members of the Croatian Defence Council exhumed on April 8 and 9 from seven graves in Bugojno Municipality. Attending the commemorative gathering were delegations of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina, headed by Presidency member Pero Skoljak, military authorities headed by the commander of the Bosnian Federation Army's second guard corps, Brigadier Zrinko Tokic, church dignitaries, and the High Representative for Bosnia's special envoy for Bugojno Municipality, Urlich Bucher. (hina) ha