SARAJEVO, 3 March (Hina) - A group of some 150 Bosnian Serbs yesterday destroyed nine prefab houses which had been set up in the village of Gajevi, northern Bosnia, where a large number of Muslim refugees was to return. Andrew
Saddleton, spokesman for the Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Sarajevo, stated on Monday that the Serbs were very well organised and had exact instructions what to do and how to do it.
SARAJEVO, 3 March (Hina) - A group of some 150 Bosnian Serbs
yesterday destroyed nine prefab houses which had been set up in the
village of Gajevi, northern Bosnia, where a large number of Muslim
refugees was to return.
Andrew Saddleton, spokesman for the Stabilisation Force (SFOR)
in Sarajevo, stated on Monday that the Serbs were very well
organised and had exact instructions what to do and how to do it.
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According to Saddleton, the Serbs set afire nine out of 11
prefab houses in plain view of Russian soldiers from the
Multinational Division North and local Serb police.
There were some 20 Russian soldiers in the area. They could do
nothing but open fire at the mob. However, they did not use such
force because the lives of civilians or SFOR soldiers were not
directly threatened, Saddleton said.
The village of Gajevi is located in the area between Koraj and
Celic in northeastern Bosnia, in the separation zone within the
Bosnian Serb entity.
The return of Muslim refugees to Gajevi was approved on the
basis of a procedure which had been conducted by the U.N. High
Commission for Refugees.
UNHCR spokesman Mans Nyberg said that such incidents will not
decrease UNHCR's determination to continue supporting the return of
refugees.
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