NEMETIN-SARVAS, Feb 5 (Hina) - Representatives of the Croatian Red Cross today met with their Serb colleagues from the occupied area at a UN checkpoint between Nemetin and Sarvas in eastern Slavonia. Also present at the meeting were
representatives of the International Red Cross.
NEMETIN-SARVAS, Feb 5 (Hina) - Representatives of the Croatian Red
Cross today met with their Serb colleagues from the occupied area
at a UN checkpoint between Nemetin and Sarvas in eastern Slavonia.
Also present at the meeting were representatives of the
International Red Cross. #L#
The two sides agreed that the next meeting of separated
families, scheduled for the 14th of February, would be attended by
69 family members from the occupied area and 66 from the free part
of former Sector East.
Deputy head of the Croatian Government Office for establishing
Croatian authority in eastern Crotia, Mirko Tankosic, urged that
care be taken of non-Serb inhabitants of occupied eastern Croatia.
They were being abused by newly-settled Serbs from western
Slavonia, Tankosic said.
"According to our data, Serbs are settling en masse in former
Sector East," Tankosic said.
"They are evicting non-Serbs from their homes and forcing them
to move to barns and to sign statements that they have done so by
their own free will," he said.
Serb Red Cross official Milivoj Licina said he was familiar
with this recent trend in barn-settling; he knew of no concrete
cases, but would help.
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