MINES DEMOLISH TWO HOUSES IN SOUTH-WEST BOSNIA

( Editorial: --> 4652 ) MOSTAR, Apr 4 (Hina) - Two houses were mined in Bjelojevici, a village near Stolac, south-western Bosnia, in the night between Friday and Saturday. According to Herzegovina-Neretva Canton Interior Minister Valentin Coric, no one was seen despite the fact that the village was patrolled by units of the NATO-led Stabilisation Force, the International Police Task Force and mixed Croat-Muslim local police. Seventeen houses in Stolac formerly owned by Muslims who wanted to return were either mined or burned over the past ten days, Coric told a session of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton. The police are actively working on tracing the perpetrators, he pointed out. "These are professionals", Coric said. Even the Islamic terrorists who last September planted a carbomb in western (Croat-held) Mostar had been professionals, he added. The call his deputy Sefkija Dziha made to an anti-terrorism unit from Sarajevo to resolve the Stolac incidents was according to Coric politicising aimed at accusing Croats of the incidents. Coric also denied claims by Bosniak (Muslim) media saying that patrols in Stolac were not mixed. (hina) ha 041901 MET apr 98