CORRESPONDENTS TO VUKOVAR
VINKOVCI, Sep 14 (Hina) - Croatian correspondents Antonije Rajkovic
and Steve Gaunt, arrested by UNPROFOR in the disengagement zone on
30 August, are in Serb prison in Beli Manastir in the occupied
Baranja (UNPA East).
Civil affairs co-ordinator in Sector East, Phillipe Corwin,
informed prefects of the Vukovar-Srijem and Osijek-Baranja
counties, Matej Jankovic and Branimir Glavas, about the fate of the
correspondents at today's meeting. He said that members of the
Russian battalion had not arrested the Croatian journalists. Armed
Serb farmers encircled the journalists in the disengagement zone
and they asked for help the UN Russian battalion. Russian soldiers,
who were in an armored personnel carrier, accepted the
correspondents. After that, Serb farmers threatened that they would
destroy the carrier with heavy weapons so that Russian soldiers
take the correspondents to Vukovar and handed them over to the Serb
authorities.
Glavas expressed dissatisfaction with UNPROFOR's work and
emphasized that this year 642 persons had been expelled from the
occupied Croatian areas in Sector East until mid August.
UNPROFOR requested that the Serb authorities release the two
journalists who have been in prison for two weeks already, Corwin
said at today's press conference held in Osijek.
The journalists should have been released yesterday, but the
Serb authorities decide to additionally accuse them of spying.
Corwin announced that he would leave for Beli Manastir tomorrow in
order to visit the correspondents and to meet with the local
authorities.
We do not recognize their judicial authorities, so that we
will not participate in legal proceedings, said Corwin.
At today's press conference, Corwin did not agree with the
journalist's assertion that over 600 persons have been expelled
from UNPA East until August. Corwin said that most of them had
voluntarily left the area for economic, health or some other
reasons.
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