FOREIGN REPORTERS VISIT NEWLY-LIBERATED PART OF PAKRAC, WEST SLAVO

SLAVO $ NIA PAKRAC, May 5 (Hina) - Several dozens of Croatian and foreign journalists visited this morning Gavrinica in western Slavonia, a part of Pakrac that was liberated yesterday. The journalists could see and be assured that the remaining civilian population of Serb nationality in the area was treated well. The residents themselves maintained that they were not abused and could stay in their homes. All of them, men women and children in that part of the Pakrac area, were cleaning up their gardens and houses. The reporters met several men going to the Pakrac police station to ask for advice and help. The superintendent of the Pakrac police, Nikola Ivkanec, ordered that children in the newly-liberated part should be administered medicines and milk, and demanded from Croatian policemen to help all who ask assistance. The journalists could see that there was no war damage on the houses and buildings from the recent clashes. The damage that could be observed, had been inflicted during the Serbian aggression against Pakrac in 1991. Asked by German journalists of ZDF to comment on some world agencies' reports that human rights were violated in the area, a Croatian deputy interior minister, Josko Moric, replied that it was possible that certain isolated cases of violations had occurred, but no one could speak of mass abuses of human rights or plunder. (hina) mm mms 051352 MET may 95