CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED AGAINST FIKRET ABDIC

ZAGREB, Aug 4 (Hina) - The prosecutor for the Bihac district (western Bosnia) "institutes criminal proceedings on 3 August against Fikret Abdic from Velika Kladusa who is under suspicion of having committed a war crime against civilians and war prisoners and having destroyed cultural and historical heritage," Bosnian- Herzegovinian Embassy in Zagreb stated last night relying this on Wednesday's statement of the Bihac district prosecutor's office. According to the charges against Abdic, he was indicted for violation of international law while being the president and the chief commander of the self-proclaimed Autonomous Province of West Bosnia (which was declared unconstitutionally on 27 September 1993 in the town of Velika Kladusa). Abdic ordered to attack civilian population and to treat war prisoners inhumanly and to devastate cultural and historical heritage, reads among other things a public statement, signed by the Bihac district prosecutor, Rasema Toromanovic. (hina) mm 041231 MET aug 94