MOSTAR/SIROKI BRIJEG, Dec 30 (Hina) - Police in the southern Bosnian town of Grude on Thursday confirmed the grave of the president of the Croat Republic of Herceg-Bosna, Mate Boban, and a statue in front of it were desecrated last
night. Police head Ivan Soldo told reporters the police were notified about the damage done to the Boban grave in the morning. Police established the grave and statue had been painted with a black sticky liquid, said Boban, adding a clockwork explosive device, which police removed, had been placed in the immediate vicinity. The leading Bosnian Croat party, the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina, condemned the desecration of the party's former president's grave, asserting it was an "act of vandalism". "If this vandalism is expressed on the graves of the persons who led and indebted their people in the hardest times, they deserve to be condemned and scorned all the more
MOSTAR/SIROKI BRIJEG, Dec 30 (Hina) - Police in the southern
Bosnian town of Grude on Thursday confirmed the grave of the
president of the Croat Republic of Herceg-Bosna, Mate Boban, and a
statue in front of it were desecrated last night.
Police head Ivan Soldo told reporters the police were notified
about the damage done to the Boban grave in the morning. Police
established the grave and statue had been painted with a black
sticky liquid, said Boban, adding a clockwork explosive device,
which police removed, had been placed in the immediate vicinity.
The leading Bosnian Croat party, the Croatian Democratic Union of
Bosnia-Herzegovina, condemned the desecration of the party's
former president's grave, asserting it was an "act of vandalism".
"If this vandalism is expressed on the graves of the persons who led
and indebted their people in the hardest times, they deserve to be
condemned and scorned all the more," the party said in a statement.
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