SARAJEVO, May 6 (Hina) - The number of refugees from the Serb region of Sandzak arriving to Bosnia-Herzegovina has decreased over the past few days. Information released on Thursday by the UN High Commissariat for Refugees (UNHCR) in
BH however, indicate that the situation in that region is worsening. Sandzak is mostly inhabited by Muslims. The UNHCR assumes that the decrease in refugee numbers is because Yugoslav authorities are preventing men eligible for military service from leaving the country. Since the beginning of NATO attacks on Yugoslavia, about 20,000 Sandzak Muslims have taken refuge in Bosnia-Herzegovina. At the same time, there are 17,600 Albanians from Kosovo currently located in Bosnia too. The Sarajevo based UNHCR office assumes that there are some ten thousand Yugoslav Serbs currently located in Republika Srpska and several hundred currently in the Federation of BH.
SARAJEVO, May 6 (Hina) - The number of refugees from the Serb region
of Sandzak arriving to Bosnia-Herzegovina has decreased over the
past few days. Information released on Thursday by the UN High
Commissariat for Refugees (UNHCR) in BH however, indicate that the
situation in that region is worsening.
Sandzak is mostly inhabited by Muslims.
The UNHCR assumes that the decrease in refugee numbers is because
Yugoslav authorities are preventing men eligible for military
service from leaving the country.
Since the beginning of NATO attacks on Yugoslavia, about 20,000
Sandzak Muslims have taken refuge in Bosnia-Herzegovina. At the
same time, there are 17,600 Albanians from Kosovo currently located
in Bosnia too.
The Sarajevo based UNHCR office assumes that there are some ten
thousand Yugoslav Serbs currently located in Republika Srpska and
several hundred currently in the Federation of BH.