TRAVNIK MUNICIPALITY AUTHORITIES WRITE TO WESTENDORP

TRAVNIK, Aug 31 (Hina) - "Travnik is a town in which the Bosnian Federation project either passes or fails," the Travnik municipal leadership and municipal branch of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) said in a letter forwarded on Sunday to the UN High Representative Carlos Westendorp, chairman of the Bosnian Presidency, Alija Izetbegovic, Presidency member Kresimir Zubak, and other Bosnian Federation, Central Bosnian Canton officials and international community representatives. The letter was forwarded after two Bosnian Croats were killed in their home near Turbet, Travnik municipality, Saturday night. "If a Croat returnee and his family can uninterruptedly and without any responsibility be attacked and killed in his own home only because he is a Croat, then the most basic conditions for Travnik to be pronounced an 'open town' such as the Bosniac authorities had done on Thursday, 28 August, have not been created," the letter said. This was only one in a line of killings of Croat returnees to Travnik, the letter said, adding that the international community had to direct its attention more harshly to the town as the crucial test of the setting up or the failure of the Bosnian Federation project. (hina) lm 311937 MET aug 97