E.U. MONITORS SAY 15 BODIES FROM KRIZANCEVO MASS GRAVE IDENTIFIED

VITEZ, Jan 7 (Hina) - European Union monitors joined UN peace keepers on Thursday to investigate the site of a mass grave at Krizancevo village, central Bosnia, after the December 22 massacre. Nick Turnbull of the EU Monitor Mission said the monitors had been taken by members of the Moslem-led Bosnian Army Third Corps to the Sivrino area where they saw 8 bodies retrieved from a mass grave containing a total of 27 victims. Turnbull said 15 bodies had been identified. EU monitors were not shown another mass grave in which, according to earlier information provided by UNPROFOR, eight more bodies had been buried. Yesterday, EU monitors and UNPROFOR personnel were denied access to a clearing where at least 20 people had been buried. Angered women of Krizancevo village threatened to blockade the UN British Battalion base in Vitez if UNPROFOR personnel did not investigate the case until 9 January. The Croatian Defence Council (HVO) command in Vitez sent a request to UN Human Rights Rapporteur Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the UN Human Rights Commission and UNPROFOR Civil Police, urging them to investigate the circumstances in which "more than 50 Croats were taken from the village of Krizancevo on 22 December and later on executed." The HVO command in Vitez also proposed a cease-fire for 8 January so that investigation could be conducted at the line of disengagement. 071747 MET jan 94