BOSNIAN CITIZENS CALLED ON TO ASSIST IN LEUTAR MURDER INVESTIGATION

SARAJEVO, Oct 8 (Hina) - The United Nations Mission to Bosnia- Herzegovina and the interior ministry of one of its entities, the Croat-Muslim federation, on Friday called on citizens to supply via anonymous calls any piece of information which might help in tracing the murderer of Jozo Leutar. Leutar, formerly the federation's deputy interior minister, was killed in a car-bomb explosion in March. The head of the UN mission to Bosnia, Jacques Klein, International Police Task Force commissioner Detlef Buwitt, and Bosnian Interior Minister Mehmed Zilic told reporters in Sarajevo a special telephone line would be set up to collect data important for the tracing of Leutar's assassins. Any calls put on the line, which it will not be possible to bug, will be received by IPTF staff. Information important for the investigation will be forwarded to local police in protected codes. Calls to the number 496 947 in Sarajevo will be received every working day between 08.30 A.M. and 4 P.M. The person who provides data which will make it possible to prepare a trial against the murderers will be rewarded with one million convertible marks. Ambassador Klein reminded that the Leutar assassination hugely damaged Bosnia's reputation. The assassins must be brought to justice as soon as possible, he said. Interior Minister Zilic said certain progress had been made in the Leutar murder investigation in the last six months, bur reminded the evidence collected was insufficient to raise an indictment. Klein and Zilic refuted reporters' criticism that the measures announced today were late in coming and that they only confirmed the inability of local police to uncover the perpetrators of political murders. Zilic said the federation's interior ministry "will never give up on looking for Leutar's assassins." (hina) ha