SARAJEVO, March 12 (Hina) - Police force of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina entered the former Serb-held Sarajevan suburb of Ilidja around 11 am Tuesday. The Federal Police was agreed to have been comprised of 90 persons, and
its ethnic structure organized on the basis of the 1991 census. It was to have comprised of 51 Bosniacs (Moslems), 26 Bosnian Serbs and 13 Bosnian Croats. However, another incident happened which hindered the implementation of an agreement under which 9 policemen from Croat-held Kiseljak should have been included.
SARAJEVO, March 12 (Hina) - Police force of the Federation of
Bosnia-Herzegovina entered the former Serb-held Sarajevan suburb of
Ilidja around 11 am Tuesday.
The Federal Police was agreed to have been comprised of 90
persons, and its ethnic structure organized on the basis of the
1991 census. It was to have comprised of 51 Bosniacs (Moslems), 26
Bosnian Serbs and 13 Bosnian Croats. However, another incident
happened which hindered the implementation of an agreement under
which 9 policemen from Croat-held Kiseljak should have been
included. #L#
When the Croat contingent arrived at the meeting spot with
officers from Sarajevo, the Bosniac contingent requested that the
Croats remove their blue uniforms and wear green ones instead.
The police chief of the Sarajevan Security Service Centre,
Alija Kazic, made this request to the Kiseljak chief of police,
Mladen Tolo.
"We could not accept this because it was degrading," Mladen
Tolo said.
Representatives of the international police force who
yesterday accredited the Croat policemen explained their failure to
intervene by saying that they had to remain neutral.
The Croat policemen returned to Kiseljak.
With the Federal police, headed by the head of the
municipality, Hamdija Mahmutovic, entered Ilidja, more than 3,000
residents who had been exiled by the Serb authorities at the
beginning of war entered the suburb to return to their homes.
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