25 MUSLIM FAMILIES RETURN TO VILLAGE IN VITEZ MUNICIPALITY

( Editorial: --> 9025 ) VITEZ, Sept 8 (Hina) - Twenty-five Bosniak (Muslim) families returned on Tuesday to the village of Gacice, in the central Bosnian municipality of Vitez. Muhamed Rebihic, president of the Vitez municipal council, thanked Vitez's municipal head Ivo Garic and the municipality's branch of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina (HDZ BiH), describing their contribution to the return to Gacice as constructive. The return to the village came after two unsuccessful attempts. On Tuesday Rebihic called on Croats to return to Djotline Kuce, Poculica and other villages in the Vitez municipality. Central Bosnia Canton Prefect Adnan Terzic promised that the returnees would receive assistance from the canton's institutions. The Vitez branch president of the Association of the (Croat) Veterans and Volunteers of the Homeland War, Anto Jakic, who witnessed the return, said that the Bosniak returnees would not face any difficulties despite the opposition of local Croats to their return. He reproached the international community for unbalanced treatment of Bosniak and Croat returnees. Thus 15 frustrated attempts by local Croats to return to the village of Bukovica is still failing to trigger an adequate response by the international community. (Hina) mro /mbr 082016 MET sep 98