THERE ARE MANY OMISSIONS IN W. MOSTAR COURT TRIAL-IVANKO, MURPHY

SARAJEVO, March 21 (Hina) - Officials of Bildt's Office and UN mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Friday expressed dissatisfaction with rulings passed by the western Mostar court against three policemen responsible for incidents that happened in Mostar on February 10 when one Moslem was killed and about twenty of them injured. A spokesman for the UN, Alexander Ivanko, said in Sarajevo that the proceedings carried out in court in the western half of Mostar were among the shortest ever recorded, and that there were serious omissions in it. Neither witnesses nor victims of the violence had been heard at all, and the court failed to mention that suspects were responsible for use of fire-arms, murder of one person and the wounding of several other people, the UN spokesman said. Ivanko described as particularly impermissible that political evaluations were given in the rulings such as that convicted policemen had fought for their country. Such comments warned that the western Mostar court did not understand what professional duties of policemen were and that judges were burdened by war times rhetoric. Such statements that followed reports of western Mostar police, were disappointing and very problematic, but not surprising, when we took in consideration all latest developments in western Mostar, Ivanko added. A spokesman for international community's High Representative Bildt's office, described yesterday's court trial in Mostar as the ridiculing of justice and the mere farce. It is the view of Carl Bildt himself, the spokesman, Colum Murphy said on Friday. According to reports of the international police, another three illegal check-points, set up by western Mostar police, had been discovered last night by international police patrols. One of the check-points was removed immediately after a warning directed to Croat policemen, whereas other two had to be removed with the help of SFOR (Stabilisation Force), but without use of force, Ivanko said. (hina) jn mš 211801 MET mar 97