FAMILIES OF THE MISSING CALL ON CROATIAN SERBS, INT. ORGANISATIONS TO HELP

SISAK, Oct 27 (Hina) - Associations of families of victims and invalids of the Homeland War in Sisak-Moslavina County have announced a new rally for 30 October (Saturday) protesting against a too slow process of establishing the fate of people who went missing during the Serb aggression against Croatia. There are still 342 soldiers and civilians from this county who are no lists of missing persons. The rally will be staged in Dvor (90 kilometres south-east of Zagreb), said a representative of the aforementioned societies, Mario Marot. Marot told reporters that letters had been forwarded from the protest rally, held in the town of Glina on September 30, to all Serb parties and associations in Croatia, Serb MPs in the National Sabor, OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Croatian National Confidence Building Committee, asking them to help in the search for missing people. Out of all those to whom letters were sent, only MP Veselin Pejnovic answered, Marot said adding that Pejnovic expressed his support to their endeavours. He promised to help us and we thank him, Marot added. We are outraged at the failure of all others, whom we notified orally or in a written manner, to respond, and we remind them of the civilisation obligations and the culture of living and communications, Marot said. He said he was especially dissatisfied that other known Serb politicians in Croatia, Milan Djukic and Milorad Pupovac had not responded, as they exert such influence on the Serb population that they can contribute to shedding more light on the destiny of the missing. At the announced rally in Dvor, the gathered will request local Serbs, Serb returnees, the OSCE, the ICRC and people of good will to help them to establish more quickly the destiny of their missing members of families in order that they can be buried in dignified manner and according to religious rituals, Marot told the news conference. (hina) jn ms