CROAT AUTHORITIES IN NORTHERN BOSNIA DEMAND RESTORATION OF OCCUPIE

OCCUPIE $ D TERRITORIES ORASJE, Dec 6 (Hina) - Municipal authorities and Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) officials in northern Bosnia on Monday forwarded an open letter to the Parliament of Croatia, the Parliament of Herzeg-Bosnia, Croatia's President Franjo Tudjman and Herzeg-Bosnia's President Mate Boban, urging them to revoke all concessions they had given. They said they would put their signature on a peace plan providing all occupied territories were retrieved. "Following the latest peace initiatives and reports from the recent meeting in Geneva we have lost our hope in the justice of the European Community and your readiness to support the Croats in northern Bosnia," said the letter whose signatories condemned the fact that after "being cooperative" at every meeting, "Croatian territory has been reduced, particularly to the detriment of the Croatian community in northern Bosnia." Along the River Sava in northern Bosnia 2,446 Croatian defenders and 1,500 civilians have been killed and 8,000 have been wounded, 500 people have been disabled and 2,600 children have lost their parents since the outset of the war. Croatian leaders said in the letter that according to the 1991 census 126,494 Croats (59.60 %), 43,620 Serbs (20.55 %), 32,879 Moslems (15.48 %) and 9,280 (4.37 %) people of other nationalities lived in northern Bosnia. 061813 MET dec 93