UN COMMISSIONER IN CHARGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS VISITS TUZLA

TUZLA, Feb 5 (Hina) - UN commissioner in charge of human rights in the region of former Yugoslavia, Elizabeth Rehn, visited the Tuzla canton on Monday. At the meeting with the Deputy Mayor, Sead Avdic, Rehn discussed the issue of refugees from Srebrenica. Commenting on her visit to Srebrenica, Rehn said that at the places where the refugees believed detainees to be held (a shopping centre and a school), there were no signs indicating that anyone had been staying there recently. She said that she had seen the remains of a number of people in the village of Kravice. Serbs had told her that those were the corpses of soldiers who had been killed in last year's battles in the area, said Rehn. Rehn promised that IFOR would escort to Srebrenica those refugees who wished to search for their loved ones there. At the talks with Bosnian Croat representatives, Rehn asked them how Croats lived in the Tuzla canton. They also talked about the oncoming elections and the Croats' plans for the economical revival of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Rehn also met with the representatives of the local branch of the Serb Citizens' Council. (hina) lm jn 052026 MET feb 96