VUKOVAR MOTHER'S LETTER TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

ZAGREB, May 11 (Hina) - Seventy-two-year-old Kata Soljic of Vukovar, who had lost her four sons in the war in Croatia, today sent a letter to the international community protesting against its indifference to the four-year plight of Croats in their own country and to the fate of some 3,000 Croatian men, women and children who had gone missing in 1991. "Where are our sons, the wounded defenders of Vukovar, 250 of them, and 100 civilians, medical staff members, who were all registered and taken from the Vukovar hospital in six buses on November 20, 1991?" Kata Soljic asked in her letter. She said that they had been deported in the presence of International Red Cross officials and UN envoy Cyrus Vance. "You are very concerned about Serb refugees, whom nobody is expelling, and you want them to return in two or three days, but you don't care about us Croats who have suffered for four years in our own country. You are taking care that Serb war prisoners are well treated by Croatian police but you don't want to know what Serb war criminals did to our innocent, unarmed people, and what they still are doing to Bosnian Croats and Moslems and beseiged towns. You don't ask about the whereabouts of our sons, women and children, some 3,000 of whom were taken in 1991 and whose fate is unknown", Kata Soljic said. (hina) mm rm vm 111934 MET may 95