SARAJEVO, June 24 (Hina) - UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman in Sarajevo, Kris Janowski on Monday said that during the past weekend, the biggest wave of ethnic cleansing from the signing of the Dayton Agreement had
taken place in Banja Luka. More than 30 Moslems who had lived in the Banja Luka neighbourhood of Vrbanja had reported to the local UNHCR office that they had been evicted from their homes by Serbs who had arrived from different parts of Bosnia, Janowski said.
SARAJEVO, June 24 (Hina) - UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
spokesman in Sarajevo, Kris Janowski on Monday said that during the
past weekend, the biggest wave of ethnic cleansing from the signing
of the Dayton Agreement had taken place in Banja Luka.
More than 30 Moslems who had lived in the Banja Luka
neighbourhood of Vrbanja had reported to the local UNHCR office
that they had been evicted from their homes by Serbs who had
arrived from different parts of Bosnia, Janowski said. #L#
Among the evicted is a family of a Moslem who had spent almost
the whole war as a refugee in Ireland and had returned to Banja
Luka seven days ago.
Janowski warned that the evicted Moslems had been physically
abused and the local Serb police had done nothing to prevent this.
IFOR spokesman in Sarajevo Simon Haselock said on Monday that
IFOR was trying to establish the exact circumstances in which the
incidents had taken place, adding that after that measures would
be taken to calm the situation as had been already done in Teslic
where Croats and Moslems had also been evicted from their homes by
Serbs.
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