TWO BOSNIAN CROATS, KILLED LAST WEEK, BURIED

TRAVNIK, Sept 2 (Hina) - Two Bosnian Croats who were killed on August 30 in the village of Nule near Travnik, were buried at a local cemetery on Tuesday. Present at the funeral of these Croat returnees, Luka Jezercic, 59, and his son Pero, 27, were several thousands of Croats from the central Bosnian town of Travnik and other villages in the Lasva valley. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sarajevo, Cardinal Vinko Puljic, said a solemn mass at the cemetery. "I have come to pray with you to God for the help to you to be persistent in the wish for the return and the stay in your homes and to pray together to God that this be the last killing in Bosnia-Herzegovina. We shall not preach hatred and revenge, but we resolutely raise our voice against the evil and violence," Cardinal Puljic said. He called on the authorities to cease throwing dust in the people's eyes when they claimed that deranged persons were to be blamed for such crimes. A representative of Travnik's Croat refugees, Tomislav Rajic, offered his condolences to the family and relatives of the killed men and encouraged Croats who had returned to their homes in the area. A message of condolences of a Croat member of Bosnia- Herzegovina's Presidency, Kresimir Zubak, was read at the funeral as well. (hina) jn mš 022157 MET sep 97