MOSTAR, 18 Aug (Hina) - Mostar mayor Ivan Prskalo, deputy mayor Safet Orucevic and the head of the Regional Office of the High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Martin Garrod, on Monday held talks on the situation in the
Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina following Saturday's mining of Croat houses in Bugojno, central Bosnia.
MOSTAR, 18 Aug (Hina) - Mostar mayor Ivan Prskalo, deputy mayor
Safet Orucevic and the head of the Regional Office of the High
Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Martin Garrod, on Monday held
talks on the situation in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina
following Saturday's mining of Croat houses in Bugojno, central
Bosnia. #L#
Following the meeting, Prskalo strongly condemned the incident
welcoming Garrod's opinion that the political situation in the whole
Federation is affecting the situation in Mostar as well.
The latest incident in Bugojno 'does not contribute to the
talks on the return of displaced people to the Federation
territory,' Prskalo warned. The international community has to exert
pressure on the organisers of Bugojno incident, Prskalo said.
Late in the evening last Saturday, three houses were mined and
one was hit with an anti-tank rocket in the village of Lug, 5 km
from central Bugojno. Two hand grenades were thrown at the houses as
well, but the attack caused no victims.
According to the 1991 census the village of Lug had 70 houses
and 382 residents, 99% of them Croats. Since July 1993 all houses in
the village were destroyed or damaged.
The Swedish and Swiss Caritas invested some 400,000 German
marks into the reconstruction of 50 houses in the village.
By 5 August, 18 houses were reconstructed and 10 families
returned to their homes. However, the donors stopped investing into
the reconstruction of the village due to frequent cases of mining
(one house was mined three times), theft of construction material
and security situation in the municipality.
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181550 MET aug 97