ACQUITTED BOSNIAN CROATS SANTIC & SKOPLJAK ARRIVE IN VITEZ

( Editorial: --> 0135 ) VITEZ, Dec 21 (Hina) - Bosnian Croats Pero Skopljak and Ivan Santic, who were acquitted of war charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, on Sunday arrived in their hometown of Vitez in central Bosnia. Skopljak, Santic and Marinko Katava, who reached Vitez last evening, arrived in Zagreb from The Hague yesterday. "As long as we fight for the truth and offer others the truth, we will have the right to the best heritage of the democratic world", Skopljak told Vitez residents who welcomed him, Santic and Katava. Pointing out they should have no illusions regarding the position of Bosnian Croats in ICTY prisons, Santic said their innocence gave them strength in The Hague, while Katava said their acquittal was the "first battle we have won in entirely unequal circumstances". (hina) ha 212115 MET dec 97