NEW ETHNIC CLEANSING DRIVE IN BANJA LUKA

ZAGREB, March 24 (Hina) - Serb terror over Croats in the Banja Luka region continued, becoming more and more dramatic. Serbs were apparently about to expel all remaining Croats and other non-Serbs out of the area, a Zagreb-based Community of Croats from northern Bosnia reported today. "Phone lines belonging to Croats or Muslims have been systematically disconnected. Now, when people can't communicate with each other, the area is rife with robberies and abuse," "The remaining non-Serbs, mostly old men, women and children, are brutally driven out of their homes." Croatian villages, such as Simici, Ivanjska, Misin Han, Barlovci, bore the brunt of this recent "ethnic cleansing" drive. Serb authorities "are doing nothing to apprehend the perpetrators, on the contrary they support them", the community report says. (Hina) bk 242115 MET mar 95