POSAVINA POLICE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT ON ORASJE-TUZLA ROAD INCIDEN

INCIDEN $ TS ORASJE, 12 April (Hina) - Representatives of the international Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosanska Posavina region this morning held talks with the deputy superintendent of the Posavina Canton police and Interior Minister in the Posavina County Government, Mato Jozic. Jozic informed IFOR representatives about recent incidents on the Orasje-Tuzla road. Only in the last two weeks, five cases of seizure of vehicles and beating-up of persons travelling along the road have been registered, Jozic said. Hamid Pejakovic (born 1948), a Croatian citizen from Gunja (left Sava river bank, Croatia) was pulled out of his car and beaten up this morning. His car was seized. Perpetrators were Bosnian Serbs located near the crossroads in Loncari, Jozic said, asking IFOR members to prevent those incidents and secure full freedom of movement. Serb allegations on the visit of a group of hundred Serbs to the cemetery in Vucilovac were not true, he said. 'The Serbs announced their visit to the cemetery on 10 April, but they failed to show up at the pre-arranged time. The police, which had been sent to Vucilovac to care for the safety of visitors returned without completing their task, because the Serbs did not show up', Jozic said. (hina) rm 121647 MET apr 96