$ RES SARAJEVO, 1 July (Hina) - Members of the international police force in Bosnia-Herzegovina yesterday discovered a devastated Catholic cemetery in the village of Mir, near Vares, central Bosnia. A large number of graves had been
dug up and the chapel was severely damaged, U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo Alexander Ivanko told a press conference in Sarajevo today. Slabs on 23 graves were taken off and broken, he added.
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SARAJEVO, 1 July (Hina) - Members of the international police force
in Bosnia-Herzegovina yesterday discovered a devastated Catholic
cemetery in the village of Mir, near Vares, central Bosnia. A large
number of graves had been dug up and the chapel was severely
damaged, U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo Alexander Ivanko told a press
conference in Sarajevo today. Slabs on 23 graves were taken off and
broken, he added. #L#
Two houses had been set afire in the same village, but they
were deserted and there were no casualties.
Perpetrators of those barbaric crimes had not been identified,
Ivanko said, stressing the local Muslim police started an
investigation into the incident.
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011445 MET jul 96