SARAJEVO, 31 March (Hina) - Unidentified perpetrators set fire to two houses in Drvar area (western Bosnia) and beat up one of the remaining Serb residents, said U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo Alexander Ivanko on Monday.
SARAJEVO, 31 March (Hina) - Unidentified perpetrators set fire to two houses
in Drvar area (western Bosnia) and beat up one of the remaining Serb
residents, said U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo Alexander Ivanko on Monday. #L#
Incidents like those registered on Friday and Saturday in Drvar are
beginning to happen on a daily basis and local police have so far done
little to find perpetrators, he said.
Local authorities in Drvar have made a decision according to which
Serbs visiting the town are allowed to stay in the town 24 hours at the
most. Their stay is controlled by local police, Ivanko said.
The decision is very worrying, Ivanko said, stressing that the
Federation authorities are expected to take measures necessary to guarantee
equal security to all persons.
Ivanko condemned on behalf of the U.N. mission in Bosnia the act of
displaying the Croatian flag on a destroyed mosque in the village of Ahmici
in central Bosnia last Saturday.
In 1993, crimes were committed on Bosniac civilians in Ahmici and
legal proceedings are being conducted in The Hague concerning these crimes,
Ivanko said, describing the act as disgusting.
Local police have promised to remove the flag from the mosque, but
they still not have done it, Ivanko said.
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