FAMILY MEMBERS OF MISSING PERSONS PROTEST UN "HASTY REPORTS"

OSIJEK, May 23 (Hina) - A representative of family members of missing and detained persons yesterday wrote to UN special envoy, Yasushi Akashi, to protest about the UN observers' "unverified reports and hasty conclusions" about alleged human-rights violations in western Slavonia. The representative, Stefica Krstic, pointed out to Akashi that the UN was applying somewhat different human-rights standards to western-Slavonia Serbs and to Vukovar Croats, as she herself and other members of the Association had experienced on their own skins. Drawing Akashi's attention to the Serb ethnic cleansing in eastern Slavonia and the Banja Luka area (north-western Bosnia), Krstic stressed that hushing up the truth promoted a they-are-all- guilty view of the war - which was precisely the aim the Serb propaganda machine worked so hard to achieve. (hina) jn as 241108 MET may 95