BODIES OF THREE BOSNIAN CROATS EXHUMED NEAR MOSTAR

( Editorial: --> 7519 ) MOSTAR, May 29 (Hina) - The exhumation and identification of three Croats killed in the Croat-Muslim conflict in May 1993 was completed Friday in the village of Grabovica, 20km south of the southern Bosnian town of Mostar. According to the Croat representative in the Croat-Muslim federal Commission for exchanging missing persons, Jerko Radic, no trace has been found yet of 26 Croats killed in Grabovica in September 1993. No Croat in Grabovica survived the Croat-Muslim conflict, he said, adding that data in "Cunning Strategy", a book by Muslim General Sefer Halilovic, suggest the bodies of the said 26 Croats were thrown into the Neretva river. Radic said 33 Croats were killed at the time, but the bodies of seven were delivered to Croat representatives in an exchange three years ago. Before the war, Grabovica was a village with Croat majority. The houses in the village were burned down, while the Catholic cemetery was destroyed, Radic said. The recent exhumation was attended by representatives of international organisations in Bosnia. Representatives of the war crimes tribunal in The Hague were not present, despite having been invited. (hina) ha jn 291705 MET may 98