BUGOJNO CROATS WANT BILDT TO FIND GRAVES OF 26 FELLOW CITIZENS

LIVNO, Jul 3 (Hina) - Representatives of Bosnian Croat refugees from Bugojno called on international organisations and Bosnian Federation authorities to help find the graves of 26 Bugojno Croats who had been abducted and killed by Moslem authorities following the Croat-Moslem conflict in 1993. A letter to that effect was forwarded to international peace coordinator Carl Bild, as well as the President and the Vice- President of the Croat-Moslem Federation, Kresimir Zubak and Ejup Ganic. The letter called for a suspension of all contacts with the president of the Bugojno war council, Dzevad Mlaco, whom the chairman of the Moslem POW Exchange Commisison, Amor Masovic, designated as responsible for the killing of the 26 Croats. Masovic made that statement at a June 28 meeting with his Croat counterpart Berislav Pusic, in the presence of Bildt's deputy Michael Steiner and ICRC representative Marc Sassoli. However, when the Bosnian Croat POW Exchange Office released a statement from that meeting, quoting Masovic's allegations, Masovic denied everything in a statement to the Sarajevo-based Onasa agency. The central-Bosnian town of Bugojno, currently under Bosnian Moslem control, is one of the four towns involved in a pilot project for the return of refugee families. (hina) jn as 031248 MET jul 96