OSIJEK, March 10 (Hina) - The Primorje County Displaced Persons' Association on Monday forwarded a letter to the Transitional Administrator General Jacques Klein, expressing dissatisfaction with "the looting of the remainder of
Croatian property". The letter stated that "the news from Lovas, Tovarnik and Tomopojevci tell about looting of great proportions last weekend when only in Lovas ten houses were completely devastated and the owners of which are displaced persons accommodated in the Primorje County".
OSIJEK, March 10 (Hina) - The Primorje County Displaced Persons' Association
on Monday forwarded a letter to the Transitional Administrator General
Jacques Klein, expressing dissatisfaction with "the looting of the remainder
of Croatian property". The letter stated that "the news from Lovas, Tovarnik
and Tomopojevci tell about looting of great proportions last weekend when
only in Lovas ten houses were completely devastated and the owners of which
are displaced persons accommodated in the Primorje County". #L#
The letter said that "Serbs who now live there are taking away all the
furniture and construction material to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
to the Novi Sad area, where Serbs who are now in the Croatian Danubian area
are being allotted land and are building new houses using stolen material
from Croatian houses".
Asked to comment on the displaced persons' letter, UNTAES spokesman
Philip Arnold told Hina that he know what was happening. He added that every
persons exiting the area and transporting property had to be given by the
local Serb leadership a notarised list of things he was transporting. The
list, Arnold added, was submitted to UNTAES and the Croatian government
Temporary Office. The list is then stored in an archive so that it was known
who transported the things, Arnold said, adding that it was difficult to
ascertain which of the things being transported were owned by these persons
and which were not.
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