SEVERAL REFUGEES VISIT THEIR HOMES IN BOSNIAN POSAVINA

RAVNE/BRCKO, Jan 20 (Hina/Habena) - Several villagers visited their houses at Ilice, near Brcko, on Saturday after being three and half years in exile during the Serb occupation of their village. Some villages of the Ravne-Brcko municipality have entered into a buffer zone under the IFOR (Implementation Force) control, since the warring factions withdrew two kilometres from the confrontation lines in this part of northern Bosnia by January 19. The villagers toured to Ilice on their own. After the visit they said that most houses and commercial buildings had been plundered and destroyed in the village. The villagers had also met Bosnian Serb policemen there, but police had not prevented them to visit their own homes. Ravne-Brcko municipal authorities said that they were planning the return of Croatian refugees to villages in the buffer zone, according to the Herzeg-Bosnian news agency (HABENA). (hina) mms 202027 MET jan 96