NEW VUKOVAR CEMETERY TO BE DE-MINED IN TWO WEEKS

( Editorial: --> 2603 ) VUKOVAR, March 26 (Hina) - Croatian special police forces on Thursday started de-mining a section of the new Vukovar cemetery of Dubrave where an Alley of Croatian Defenders will be built. Mladen Blaskovic, head of the mine-removal team, said that 20 members of special police forces were de-mining the cemetery. A section of about nine hectares should be cleared of mines in two weeks. The remains of about 1,300 persons buried at the new cemetery after the fall of Vukovar will be transferred to the Alley of Croatian Defenders. The exhumation of bodies should start around 15 April. Civilians and other victims of the war, who express a wish to be buried in the alley, will have their plot at the cemetery. (hina) mm rm/mrb 261908 MET mar 98