HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REPORTS ON ATTACKS ON HOSPITALS IN BOSNIA, CROA

CROA $ TIA ZAGREB, June 20 (Hina) - Representatives of the Boston-based organization "Physicians for Human Rights" on Thursday presented a report on the violation of the international humanitarian right and the endangering of doctors' and patients' lives and attacks on hospitals during the war in the former Yugoslavia 1991-1995 in Sarajevo. The 200-page report describes deliberate and repeated attacks on hospitals in Sarajevo, Gorazde, Mostar and Bihac in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Vukovar, Slavonski Brod, Vinkovci, Osijek, Sisak and Zagreb in Croatia. Events in Vukovar, eastern Slavonia, are related under the headline "Medicine Under Siege in the Former Yugoslavia". Manager of the organization's legal investigation department, Robert Kirschner, said that during the Hague Tribunal-directed investigation in the Vukovar area, the massacre of more than 200 patients from a Vukovar hospital, for which Serbs were responsible, had been confirmed. The organization gathered information on more than 100 physicians, nurses and technicians who were killed during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and lots of information on deliberate attacks on medical convoys and deliberate destruction of medical care shipments. The report says that a small-number surgical team from Srebrenica, a Moslem enclave in eastern Bosnia, had in 1993, when each day 40-60 persons died due to injuries, disease and hunger, performed more than a 100 amputations without any anesthesia. (hina) ha mm 201931 MET jun 96