VIOLENCE IN SERB-CONTROLLED SARAJEVO SUBURBS GROWS BIGGER

SARAJEVO, March 8 (Hina) - Violence and lawlessness in Serb- controlled Sarajevo suburbs were growing bigger every day, spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Kris Janowski, told a press conference in Sarajevo today. A Muslim woman had been brutally killed in her apartment in Grbavica last Wednesday night, he said. #L# The woman was a victim of gangs which had been moving through Grbavica and Ilidza and systematically robbing building by building for days, Janowski said. The woman had been beaten up first and then killed. The neighbours had heard the woman's screams, but they did not dare to help her. The Serb police arrive at the site of murder a couple of hours later and they did not even try to start an investigation, Janowski said. Another two women, one Croat and the other Muslim, had been beaten up and robbed in their own flats. Armed gangs were breaking into flats in Grbavica and Ilidza every night, mainly between 11 pm and 1 o'clock in the morning. The number of cases of arson in abandoned buildings was increasing and the fire service was not showing readiness to intervene, Janowski said. NATO soldiers could not prevent mass robberies nor killings, despite the fact that their number in Sarajevo suburbs had been increased considerably, he added. (hina) rm jn 081429 MET mar 96