BAJAKOVO, June 6 (Hina) - 17 Croatian citizens of Serb nationality who had left Croatia after 1991 and had been temporarily settled in Serbia entered Croatia on Thursday. According to UNHCR officials who accompanied the group, this
was the first organized group of Serb returnees who came back to live in Croatia of their own free will. They returned to Rijeka, Zagreb, Knin and Vinkovci.
BAJAKOVO, June 6 (Hina) - 17 Croatian citizens of Serb nationality
who had left Croatia after 1991 and had been temporarily settled in
Serbia entered Croatia on Thursday.
According to UNHCR officials who accompanied the group, this
was the first organized group of Serb returnees who came back to
live in Croatia of their own free will. They returned to Rijeka,
Zagreb, Knin and Vinkovci. #L#
At the same time, UNHCR organized for a group of 60 Serbs to
return to Serbia. They were mainly persons imprisoned last summer
during the liberation of Croatia's occupied territory to whom
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman had granted amnesty in occasion
of Statehood Day (30 May). They had been settled in the refugee
centre of Gasinci near Djakovo, eastern Slavonia, and after being
granted amnesty decided to return to Serbia.
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