SFOR SOLDIER PROTECTS BOSNIAK IN CAPLJINA

MOSTAR, Aug 20 (Hina) - While supervising a visit of a group of Bosniaks (Muslims) to Croat-controlled Capljina (southern Bosnia- Herzegovina) on Tuesday afternoon, soldiers of the Stabilization Force prevented five unknown persons from attacking a Bosniak, the information office of SFOR's multinational division sector south- east said in a statement on Wednesday. At the end of the visit, the statement said, three Bosniaks headed for a bus to take them back to Mostar, when five men who stepped out of a while car approached them and tried to force one Bosniak to get into their car. A patrolling member of SFOR's military police heard several cries for help and intervened, the statement said. Later, the five unidentified men threw stones at the bus smashing several windows in the process. Members of the Stabilization Force safeguarded the bus to Mostar in order to ensure that the group of Bosniaks reach their destination untroubled, the statement concluded. (hina) ha jn 201311 MET aug 97