SARAJEVO, Jan 27 (Hina) - The highest international community officials in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday requested an urgent meeting with president of Republika Srpska, Biljana Plavsic, to ask her to ensure the safe return of displaced
persons to their homes in the zone of separation in the Serb entity.
SARAJEVO, Jan 27 (Hina) - The highest international community
officials in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday requested an urgent
meeting with president of Republika Srpska, Biljana Plavsic,
to ask her to ensure the safe return of displaced persons to
their homes in the zone of separation in the Serb entity. #L#
Office spokesman of the high representative for the
implementation of the peace agreement, Colum Murphy, said in
Sarajevo on Monday that the request had been forwarded after
Sunday's meeting among SFOR main commander General Crouch,
Carl Bildt and commissioner of the International Police Task
Force (IPTF) Fitzgerald.
The meeting took place because of an attack on displaced
Moslems near the village of Gajevi in north Bosnia.
SFOR spokesman in Sarajevo Tony White said that three
groups of about 200 Serbs attacked workers who had been
setting up prefabricated houses in Gajevi and intercepted a
tractor which had been transporting construction material. The
driver was badly beaten.
Several more Moslems were injured when the Serbs attacked
the remaining workers in an attempt to chase them away from
Gajevi. The Serbs then destroyed all the building material
which had been previously brought for the reconstruction of
houses.
According to UN spokesman Aleksandar Ivanko, the local
Serb police had refused to intervene and protect the workers
who had arrived in Gajevi with all the necessary permits and
with the consent of the Serb authorities.
SFOR and IPTF spokesmen added that there was irrefutable
proof that Sunday's attack on workers in Gajevi had been well
prepared and organized by local Serb authorities.
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