SERBS IN ILIDZA ARE BEING SYSTEMATICALLY INTIMIDATED - UN

SARAJEVO, March 15 (Hina) - Most of the 10,000 Bosnian Serbs who remained in the Sarajevan suburbs which were handed over to the Bosnian Federation control, could soon be leaving the area due to constant intimidations, UN spokesman in Sarajevo, Alexander Ivanko warned on Friday. He said that the intimidating was done systematically and the Bosnia-Herzegovina authorities had not tried to take measures to prevent groups of oppressors in threatening local residents, despite calls from the UN. #L# International police forces had proof of the Bosniac (Moslem) police encouraging the oppressors in their intimidation, Ivanko said. He warned that such actions seriously endanger attempts to maintain Sarajevo as a multi-ethnic city. UN representatives who are monitoring the situation in Ilidza are comparing the recent events with those which happened in the Serb held Banja Luka during the war. UNHCR expressed concern about the situation, UNHCR spokesman, Kris Janowski said. He held that the comparison with Banja Luka, where no mosques exist any more, where people had been murdered and abused, were exaggerated. The President of the Croat-Moslem Federation, Kresimir Zubak, (a Croat) warned Thursday that Federal authorities could not be held responsible for incidents in Sarajevan suburbs, because Moslems were refusing to implement the Interior Ministry Act. Ivanko confirmed on Friday that representatives of Serbs in Ilidza said they would feel safer if Croat policemen were included in patrols. The Security Service Centre in Sarajevo said it would try to bring order to Ilidza by limiting the number of people entering the area. Apart from the residents, only their families or refugees who want to return to the area will be granted entrance, while others will have to obtain special passes. (hina) lm jn 151712 MET mar 96