SARAJEVO, Feb 26 (Hina) - Bosnian federal police force entered Monday another two Sarajevo suburbs which had been under Serb occupation since the outset of war. In the western suburbs of Rajlovac and Nedzarici the police would have
the assignment to safeguard local population, only there would be no permanent police precinct (unlike northern suburb of Vogosca).
SARAJEVO, Feb 26 (Hina) - Bosnian federal police force entered
Monday another two Sarajevo suburbs which had been under Serb
occupation since the outset of war.
In the western suburbs of Rajlovac and Nedzarici the police
would have the assignment to safeguard local population, only there
would be no permanent police precinct (unlike northern suburb of
Vogosca). #L#
Most of the Serbs who used to live in the suburbs opted to
leave. Bosnian Interior Minister Avdo Hebib, who had also visited
the suburbs on Monday, said that "legal authorities would offer
necessary guarantees to the Serbs who opt to stay."
Reaching a destroyed old people's home in Nedjarici, the
police officers have found around 80 elders. Only five persons had
been taking care of them.
A United Nations spokesman in Sarajevo, Alexander Ivanko, said
the situation was most tense in Ilijas (north-west of Sarajevo)
where the police was expected to enter on Thursday. Most of the
Serb residents were rapidly leaving the town, but the Bosnian Serb
authority in Pale failed to organize trucks to assist them.
Ivanko said that 85 police officers were doing their job very
professionally in Vogosca. The group included 30 police of Serb and
eight of Croat nationality.
Bosnian Federal Interior Ministry has planned to dispatch 545
policemen in the Sarajevo suburbs. They would be supervised by 300
international police officers, the United Nations had deployed in
Bosnia.
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