REFUGEES RETURN FROM VISIT TO MOSLEM-CONTROLLED BUGOJNO

ZAGREB, Apr 16 (Hina) - Forty-eight Croatian and Moslem women refugees, who went to visit their homes in Moslem-controlled Bugojno on Thursday, today returned to Livno. The refugees said the Moslem authorities had caused them no trouble during the visit. Their freedom of movement was not restricted, but they could not visit their appartments and houses, where Moslem refugees had been accommodated. The refugees reported that Catholic cemeteries in the villages of Kandija, Bristovi and Sultanovci and most Catholic churches in the area had been damaged or destroyed. Only a Catholic church in downtown Bugojno remained whole, said the refugees. The women conveyed the call of the leader of the local Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) branch, Ivo Mrsa, to return to Bugojno. The number of Croats in the town dwindled to 2,000 during the war. Three elderly women were allowed by Moslem authorities to join their husbands and stay in Bugojno. 161507 MET apr 94