CRO DISPLACED PERSONS DISSATISFIED WITH REINTEGRATION

ZAGREB, May 9 (Hina) - Despite some progress in the process of reintegration of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem, the Executive Committee of the Croatian Displaced Persons' Union (ZPH) believes that the reintegration is being implemented slowly and that the future of the process is not known. "We support the peaceful reintegration, but we are not pleased with the way it is being realized because neither is the return of refugees ensured, nor is the demographic structure of 1991," ZPH president Mato Simic told a news conference in Zagreb on Thursday. He said that the ZPH demanded the process of demilitarization and disarmament of all military and paramilitary forces in the occupied Danubian area to begin within the set time limits. Simic expressed doubt in the success of the demilitarization after "the Chetnic group headed by Goran Hadzic (one of the leaders of the armed rebel Serbs in Croatia) come to authority". The displaced persons reminded a representative in the Croatian Parliament Lower House who is to discuss the Bill on Amnesty at one of the house sessions, that the whereabouts of missing Croatian soldiers were still unknown and that 100,000 people were still in exile. They asked that the Amnesty Act take effect only after the whereabouts of missing and detained persons became known and when the return of displaced persons to the still occupied Croatian area began. (hina) lm jn 091704 MET may 96