BOSNIAN SERBS CONTINUE WITH ETHNIC CLEANSING

SARAJEVO, May 31 (Hina) - Expulsions of the non-Serb population from the Teslic area of northern Bosnia have continued in the last 24 hours despite warnings from the international community. The greatest wave of ethnic cleansing since the signing of the Dayton peace agreement affected not only Moslems but also some Croats, and one Gypsy family was also evicted, UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski told a press conference in Sarajevo on Friday. All the UNHCR could do was collect information from the refugees on the circumstances under which they had been forced to leave their homes. International organizations still do not know the exact number of refugees. The exiled mayor of Teslic, Adil Osmanovic, told reporters last week that 500 Moslems had been expelled. Janowski accused Bosnian Serb "premier" Gojko Klickovic of duplicity. During a meeting with UNHCR officials on Wednesday, Klickovic had pledged support for unobstructed movement of UNHCR buses that should have run between the two entities of Bosnia- Herzegovina. But after the meeting, he told the Serb media that he opposed the proposal. Serb police on Thursday prevented the passage of a UNHCR bus from Serb-held Banja Luka to Zenica in the Moslem-Croat Federation, which was the first time that a UNHCR vehicle had been denied passage since the US-sponsored peace agreement was signed last December. It is evident that the Bosnian Serb authorities at Pale oppose establishment of any kind of links between the entities, Janowski stressed. The UNHCR would demand that the NATO-led peace Implementation Force (IFOR) remove the illegal Serb checkpoint outside Mrkonjic Grad where the UNHCR bus was turned back. Bus services between Sarajevo and Lukavica and between Mostar and Nevesinje have also been suspended. (hina) vm jn 311636 MET may 96