SARAJEVO, June 19 (Hina) - Bosnian authorities were doing nothing to prevent everyday robbery and abuse of the Serb populace which had remained in the suburbs of Sarajevo after their integration into the Bosnian Federation, deputy
International Peace Coordinator for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Michael Steiner, said in an interview published in Wednesday's edition of the Sarajevo daily "Oslobodjenje". Steiner said he was ashamed of Sarajevo, stressing that Serbs in Ilidza, Vogosca and Ilijas were subject to violence and most of the 8,000 of them were preparing to leave their homes.
SARAJEVO, June 19 (Hina) - Bosnian authorities were doing nothing
to prevent everyday robbery and abuse of the Serb populace which
had remained in the suburbs of Sarajevo after their integration
into the Bosnian Federation, deputy International Peace Coordinator
for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Michael Steiner, said in an interview
published in Wednesday's edition of the Sarajevo daily
"Oslobodjenje".
Steiner said he was ashamed of Sarajevo, stressing that Serbs
in Ilidza, Vogosca and Ilijas were subject to violence and most of
the 8,000 of them were preparing to leave their homes. #L#
The events in the suburbs were a disgrace for Sarajevo,
Steiner said, asking why President Izetbegovic did not say a word
about the issue.
He warned that refugees from eastern Bosnia who have settled
in the suburbs were starting to establish parallel structures of
authority, they were bursting into Serb houses and determining
themselves how much space they would take up.
Steiner stressed that the strategy of ethnic cleansing was
being executed in Sarajevo, whose epilogue was the establishment of
a mono-ethnic society.
He said he could not accept the explanation that something was
happening here because it had happened before elsewhere.
Nobody had condemned this, everybody was quiet, Steiner said.
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