BOSNIAN CROAT OFFICIALS PROTEST OVER MISREPRESENTATION OF THEIR ST

ST $ ATEMENT SARAJEVO, Jan 7 (Hina) - Senior Bosnian Croat officials on Sunday protested over the way in which Bosnian television presented their statement on the situation in the southern town of Mostar. Bosnian Federation president Kresimir Zubak and several other Croat officials of the Republic and Federation of Bosnia- Herzegovina said in a statement that only some parts of their official statement on the situation in Mostar were read in a prime-time news programme Saturday night. The statement said that the Bosnian public was not informed about a crime that had taken place in the Usora area of north-central Bosnia on Christmas Eve when two Croatian Defence Council (HVO) troops had been killed, after which government authorities had allegedly removed all physical evidence of the crime. "If we want a true peace, democracy, equal rights and freedom of speech, Television of Bosnia-Herzegovina should be thoroughly changed for the sake of the Bosnian public; the public must not be informed selectively, by witholding, censoring or manipulating the facts," the statement said. (hina) vm 072020 MET jan 96