COMMUNIQUE BE CENTER FOR POW AND MISSING

ZAGREB, 6 August (Hina) - In late 1991 families of POWs and mising Croatian veterans and civilians, members of the Apel center and the association Croatian Mothers, based in Vinkovci, filled out search forms with the International Red Cross but have still not received any news about their beloved ones, says a communique of the Center for the Protection of Human Rights of Detained and Missing Citizens of Croatia and of Their Families. Petitioners want to be informed by the ICRC on its past activities on detection and registration of detained and missing persons and on the plight of those that have been visited by the ICRC but have not been released from prison. On 7 August 1996 the Center will inform the public about its requests at a press briefing in Zagreb, to be held at 1200 HRS at Selska cesta 2. mr (Hina) 062303 MET aug 96