SERB NATIONAL CROSSES OVER TO CROATIA

SISAK, Nov 19 (Hina) - A Serbian national Nikola Pejnovic voluntarily crossed over into Sisak (free Croatia) from the occupied town of Petrinja. Pejnovic was born in the village of Inisovac in Western Slavonia in 1939 and was a firefighter in the Petrinja Gavrilovic meat factory. He arrived to Sisak from Petrinja (distance of 10 kilometers) in his car via Bosnia, Serbia and Hungary. Nikola Pejnovic told the journalists in the Sisak police that he was prompted to come to Sisak by President Tudjman's Peace Initiative and the message by the Prefect of the Sisak-Moslavina County Duro Brodarac to the residents of the county that stresses the need for a peaceful Đresolution of the hostilities. Pejnovic also said that the living conditions of the Serbs and the few Croats in the occupied Petrinja are disastrous, and that it is forbidden to openly promote peace ideas as the rebels favor constant tension and the war psychosis. The local people get food only from the humanitarian aid supplies, and that they secretly watch Croatian TV information program, according to Pejnovic. He also said that Serbs are fearing the local extremists, and that at the moment there is no such leader locally who would favor a peaceful resolution and talks with the Croats from the other side of the disengagement line. (End) 191454 MET nov 93