SERBS CONTINUE EXPELLING MUSLIMS FROM REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

SARAJEVO, 3 Dec (Hina) - The U.N. mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina has been informed about the continuation of ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian Serb entity. UN spokesman in Sarajevo Alexander Ivanko stated Tuesday that reports on the expulsion of remaining Muslims in the area around the northern Bosnian town of Bosanska Gradiska, had been confirmed. #L# In the last two and a half months, thirty Muslim families were expelled from their homes in the village of Dubrave near Bosanska Gradiska. Two Muslim families were expelled in the past three days. Another ten families from the same village told U.N. representatives they were planning to leave their homes, adding they had not even been guaranteed minimal security. The Muslims are being expelled from their homes by Serb refugees from Donji Vakuf, on the territory of the Croat-Muslim Federation. Local authorities are doing nothing to prevent the expulsions. We think that it is disgusting that a year after the signing of the Dayton agreement members of minority ethnic groups are being expelled from their homes in Republika Srpska and we have demanded again that it be stopped, Ivanko said. (hina) rm 031327 MET dec 96