INTERNATIONAL POLICE LAUNCH INVESTIGATION INTO MOSTAR VIOLENCE

SARAJEVO, Feb 12 (Hina) - UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko said on Thursday that a special team of International Police Task Force investigators was set up to look into the violence that broke out in the southern Bosnian town of Mostar on Monday. The team would start an investigation today but Moslem and Croat police would not be involved in it, Ivanko told a news conference in the Serb-held town of Pale east of Sarajevo. According to a report by the UN mission in Sarajevo, six more Moslem families were evicted overnight from their homes in Croat-controlled west Mostar, bringing the total number of expelled Moslem families in the last two days to 27. Kresimir Zubak, the Croat member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's three-man presidency and president of the Croat-Moslem Federation, confirmed expulsions from west Mostar but stressed that it would be ensured that all the expellees could return. Speaking to reporters in Sarajevo, Zubak said that there were no vehicles bearing Croat licence plates on the Sarajevo-Mostar road this morning after a number of vehicles with licence plates issued in Croatia and Herzeg-Bosnia had been stopped in the last two days. UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski said that telephone lines between east and west Mostar were cut at 5.00 hours on Thursday. (hina) vm jn 121657 MET feb 97