BOSNIAN GOVT CALLS FOR OSCE OBSERVER MISSION TO RETURN TO SANDZAK

SARAJEVO, March 7 (Hina) - The government of Bosnia-Herzegovina today said it would request the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to return its observer mission to Sandzak to protect the Moslem community there as the Serbian police and military stepped up their campaign of terror. The Bosnian government discussed the issue at an emergency session and decided to inform the UN Security Council, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and the governments of Great Britain and France of human rights violations in Sandjak, a region in southwestern Serbia. Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic said that 45 villages along the Bosnian-Serbian border were cleansed of Moslem population. Serbian police had killed 40 Moslems and 181 had gone missing. Silajdzic said that about 16 thousand members of various Serbian paramilitary groups were sowing terror among Sandzak Moslems, forcing them to flee their homes. The government called on the international community to exert pressure on Belgrade to stop violations of the fundamental human rights of the Moslem population in Sandzak. (hina) jn vm 071806 MET mar 95