SERBS AMASS TROOPS AND EQUIPMENT ON MT VLASIC, CENTRAL BOSNIA

VITEZ, Apr 3 (Hina) - Serb aggressors were amassing troops and equipment at confrontation lines with the government-led Bosnian Army on Mount Vlasic where the Bosnian Army had recently freed a dozen square kilometres of territory, local Croatian Defence Council (HVO) in Vitez reported on Monday. According to the HVO report, newly deployed Serb soldiers belong to the so-called first 'Krajina' corps, and others are troops from the 'Army of Jugoslavia (AJ)' from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro). More and more tanks and cannons could be spotted collecting on the front as well. The deputy chief commander of Bosnian Serb forces, General Milan Gvero, has arrived at Mount Vlasic, probably preparing another Serb offensive on this front in central Bosnia. There also the 'Army of Jugoslavia' crack troops called 'panthers', who have arrived from Serbia. Today severe fighting was raging about the ski centre of Babanovac on Mount Vlasic, the HVO sources said. Clashes were going on for two Croatian villages of Potkraj and Djelilovac, occupied by Serbs since November 1992. The Komar mountain ridge, and the left part of the Travnik front saw severe fighting, too, the HVO sources said on Monday. (hina) mm mms 031709 MET apr 95