BOSNIAN CROATS IN VARES PROTEST AT DESTRUCTION OF CEMETERIES

VARES, Nov 4 (Hina) - The municipal council of Vares, 50 km north of Sarajevo, on Monday sent a letter to international peace coordinator Carl Bild and Bosnian Presidency member Kresimir Zubak in protest at the destruction of Catholic cemeteries in the villages of Bijelo Borje and Mir at the weekend. The letter said that 14 graves and a chapel in Bijelo Borje and 46 graves and a chapel in Mir had been destroyed on the night of November 2. "The imprints of army boots in the cemeteries indicate that the cemeteries were desecrated by extremists of the Bosnian army," Vares Municipal Council president Miroslav Pejcinovic said. The Council demanded that Bildt and Zubak urge the commander of the NATO-led peace implementation force, Admiral Lopez, to fulfil his promise that Moslem extremists would be transferred from the villages in the Vares area which had had a majority Croat population before the war. (hina) vm mm 041732 MET nov 96