UNHCR CONDEMNS MINING OF CROAT HOUSES IN KAKANJ

MOSTAR, Aug 26 (Hina) - UNHCR spokesman in Mostar Ariane Quentier told reporters in Mostar on Tuesday that two recently reconstructed Croat houses in the central Bosnian town of Kakanj were damaged over the weekend. This was a very negative sign after Croat displaced persons started returning to Kakanj, she said, adding that UNHCR condemned the violence. Quentier said 51 Bosniak (Muslim) families had returned to Stolac as part of a pilot-project. Other eight families would return by the end of the week which, as she said, would end the second phase of the return of Bosniaks to the Stolac area. The remaining 43 Bosniak families from the mentioned pilot- project would return in the third phase, the UNHCR spokesman said, adding that a list of their names and houses which they should move in would be discussed at a 1 September meeting on the federal level. (hina) ha jn 261528 MET aug 97