BUGOJNO AUTHORITIES OBSTRUCT CROATS' RETURN

BUGOJNO, Oct 2 (Hina) - The Municipal Commission for the implementation of the pilot-project for the return to Muslim- controlled Bugojno (central Bosnia) will no longer work since there are no conditions for the implementation of that part of the Dayton Agreement. The Commission informed the Bosnian Federation headquarters for the implementation of the return pilot-programme about its decision in a letter signed by the Commission's Croat side. According to the Dayton Accord's pilot-project, 400 Croat families should return to two Muslim-controlled towns and 400 families to two Croat-controlled towns. 111 Croat families had returned to Bugojno in the past eleven months, but 22 of them recently moved out again due to restrictions of human rights and freedoms and personal and property insecurity. In the letter, the Bugojno Commission says it cannot work because local Muslim authorities are uncooperative and unwilling to provide security for returnees and their property. An attempted assassination of the chairman of the Commission's Croat side, Judge Stjepan Vukadin and his family, on 13 September this year was followed by several other incidents: three returnees' houses were set on fire, one was looted, while one Croat woman was expelled from her flat. "Due to all this, the Municipal Commission (...) does not want to deceive Croats who want to return to Bugojno and promise them a return which is still under question and not sure, because the majority of the Croats are returning to completely devastated houses, while local authorities do nothing to protect their property", the letter says. (hina) ha jn 022015 MET oct 96