CRO VICE-PREMIER VISITS EXHUMATION SITES

PETRINJA, Aug 27 (Hina) - Croatian vice-premier Ivica Kostovic, president of the government's Commission for Imprisoned and Missing Persons, Major Ivan Grujic, and the head of the Defense Ministry's Administration for Care, Colonel Ante Vucic, on Tuesday afternoon visited Petrinja, Hrvatska Kostajnica and Dvor na Uni, towns south- east of Zagreb, liberated in the summer 1995. They visited the sites where exhumation of the victims of the Serb aggression was being or would be performed. The remains of 255 bodies had been exhumed so far in this region, while in the Petrinja area the remains of 96 persons had been identified. 432 new sites had been located in Croatia's liberated area, Grujic said in his talks with the towns' mayors, adding that they expected to discover more than 1000 bodies of Croatian Homeland War soldiers. Kostovic announced the passing of a special law on the marking of sites where the victims of the Serb aggression were killed and buried. (hina) ha jn 271837 MET aug 96