DISPLACED RUTHENIANS PAY RESPECTS TO THEIR DECEASED ( Editorial: --> 7553 )

( Editorial: --> 7553 ) MIKLUSEVCI, Nov 2 (Hina) - Some 100 displaced Ruthenians from the Miklusevci village, UN-administered part of the eastern Croatian Vukovar-Srijem County, on Sunday visited their village on the occasion of All Souls' Day. They paid respects to their deceased, while representatives of the Association of Ruthenians and Ukrainians of Croatia laid wreaths. Miroslav Kis, chairman of the parliament's committee for human rights, recalled in Ruthenian the sufferings of Ruthenians and Ukrainians from Croatia during the Homeland War. Over 230 either died or were killed which, he said, was over 3.5 percent of the total figure of those nationalities in Croatia. About 2,250 Ruthenians lived in the villages of Miklusevci and Petrovci before the war. (hina) ha mm 021847 MET nov 97