SIXTY PEOPLE RETURN TO ERNESTINOVO

( Editorial: --> 5813 ) ERNESTINOVO, Jan 20 (Hina) - Sixty people have returned to the village of Ernestinovo in eastern Croatia, where reconstruction is well underway. According to Ernestinovo municipal head Ladislav Ferenc, 1495 residents lived in that village near Osijek in 1991. All residents, except 250 Serbs, left Ernestinovo during the war. Today Ernestinovo has only 140 Serbs, some of them residents and some who have moved in from other parts of Croatia. About 800 displaced people have sent requests to reconstruct their destroyed homes. (Hina) mm mb 201411 MET jan 98