IPTF SHOWS PHOTOS OF MOSTAR INCIDENT

MOSTAR, Feb 26 (Hina) - Commissioner of the International police task force (IPTF) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Robert Wasserman, told Wednesday's news conference in Mostar that the IPTF would, in the next 10 to 12 days, issue a report on events in Mostar prior to the incident of 10 February, as well as about events after the tragic incident in the Liska street. #L# Wasserman said that the incidents had been followed by numerous attacks, and the worst one had been the attack on Bosnian Croats, as well as Bosniacs (Moslems) on the Sarajevo-Mostar-Ploce road. Reporters were on Wednesday shown thirteen photographs by which the IPTF documented several west Mostar police officers in civilian clothes and two in uniforms holding pistols and shooting in the direction of the crowd in the Liska street on 10 February. According to Wasserman, the police officers holding weapons in the photographs had said during the investigation that they had not been armed. Wasserman also said that an autopsy had not been performed on a man who had been killed in the incident of 10 February, adding that the west Mostar police had not asked for a post-mortem. The investigation confirmed that SFOR had not been informed about the arrival of Bosniacs to the cemetery in Liska street on 10 February, Wasserman stressed. Head of Bildt's Regional Office in Mostar, Martin Garrod, said that the IPTF investigation concerning the tragic event of 10 February was not directed against Croats, but against police officers who had overstepped their authority. Garrod held that the court had to reach a decision about the whole issue. He said that the international community would not make concessions. (hina) lm mm 261926 MET feb 97