VINKOVCI, June 27 (Hina) - A group of 42 Croatian Serbs on Tuesday entered Croatia from Yugoslavia at the Bajakovo border crossing, in line with a Croatian government return programme. They are returning to areas they fled during
1995's liberation operations Flash and Storm. According to Ante Drmic, head of the Regional Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees in Vinkovci, most of the Croatian Serbs who entered Croatia last night were headed to Lika and Dalmatia. A number of them entered Croatia thanks to lists of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, others had travel papers issued at the Croatian Embassy in Belgrade, and a number entered with Croatian passports. According to data of the Regional Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees in Vinkovci, 2,675 Croatian Serbs entered Croatia across Bajakovo over 1998 and 1999. In this year's first six months, 701 Croatian Serb refugees returned in
VINKOVCI, June 27 (Hina) - A group of 42 Croatian Serbs on Tuesday
entered Croatia from Yugoslavia at the Bajakovo border crossing, in
line with a Croatian government return programme. They are
returning to areas they fled during 1995's liberation operations
Flash and Storm.
According to Ante Drmic, head of the Regional Office for Displaced
Persons and Refugees in Vinkovci, most of the Croatian Serbs who
entered Croatia last night were headed to Lika and Dalmatia.
A number of them entered Croatia thanks to lists of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, others had travel papers
issued at the Croatian Embassy in Belgrade, and a number entered
with Croatian passports.
According to data of the Regional Office for Displaced Persons and
Refugees in Vinkovci, 2,675 Croatian Serbs entered Croatia across
Bajakovo over 1998 and 1999. In this year's first six months, 701
Croatian Serb refugees returned in 27 organised returns.
Drmic told Hina the actual number of Serbs who returned to Croatia
across Bajakovo was far higher as returnees with passports or
travel papers are not obligated to return in organised groups, but
can do so of their own, without reporting to regional offices for
displaced persons and refugees.
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