FORENSICS EXHUME BODY OF CROATIAN JOURNALIST

( Editorial: --> 4879 ) DALJ/TENJE, Feb 26 (Hina) - Thursday's exhumation of a mass grave at the Betin Dvor heath near Tenje (a suburb of Osijek) yielded seven bodies, including four men and three women. All the people were civilians from Tenje, said Col. Ivan Grujic, chairman of the Government Commission for the Detained and the Missing Croatian Defenders. Another exhumation started today in the village of Dalj, where two bodies were disinterred at the Catholic cemetery and the body of the Croatian journalist Stjepan Penic near the Serb Orthodox one. Stjepan Penic, a Vukovar radio journalist and a correspondent of the daily newspaper Glas Slavonije and a number of other media, was killed in cold blood on 6 August 1991 and then burned. "Being a journalist, Penic was protected by the Geneva Convention, but that obviously did not mean anything to the Serb aggressor," stressed Col. Grujic. The exhumation in Dalj will be continued tomorrow, said Col. Grujic, adding that the Catholic cemetery in Dalj probably contained a large mass grave. (Hina) mm mr 262017 MET feb 98