HIGHLIGHTS FROM CRO LOWER HOUSE DISCUSSION ON AMNESTY ACT

ZAGREB, May 15 (Hina) - Peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danubian area was Croatia's most important goal and the Amnesty Act had been proposed by the government with the aim of a peaceful reintegration, the return of displaced persons and demilitarization, Justice Minister Miroslav Separovic said at the end of Wednesday's Lower House discussion on the Bill on Amnesty for perpetrators of criminal acts in eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem. There would be no amnesty for perpetrators of war crimes, Separovic said. #L# Milan Djukic of the Serb National Party (SNS) opposed a regulation according to which the act concerned only the Croatian Danubian area and not the whole of Croatia, so he suggested that a general amnesty act be passed. The act should be implemented under the supervision of international organizations, Djukic said. Damir Kajin of the Istrian Democratic Party (IDS) held that the name of the act should include names of municipalities to which the act applied. A representative of minorities, Miroslav Kis, said that passing the act should be conditional on the peaceful reintegration which would calm the justifiable objections of Croatian displaced persons. Jadranka Kosor of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) supported the Bill and said that the act would not apply to those who were responsible for the massacre at Ovcara, outside Vukovar, for the rape of men and women and for criminal acts inconceivable to the human race. Djuro Perica of the HDZ was of the opinion that those who had stayed in Croatia and had accepted it as their homeland should be pardoned. (hina) lm mm 151410 MET may 96