BANJA LUKA BISHOP'S LETTER BECAUSE OF ALARMING SITUATION

BANJA LUKA, ZAGREB May 10 (Hina) - Bishop of Banja Luka, Msgr. Franjo Komarica, today issued a letter in which he requested Banja Luka Serb authorities to prevent extremists of the Serb Radical Party from carrying out their intention to expel all Croats and Moslems from Banja Luka and other towns (northwestern Bosnia). In the worrying letter Bishop Komarica said they had received a manifesto of the Serb Radical Party which urges the expelling of Croats and Moslems from their homes in Banja Luka and other towns under Bosnian Serb control and immediately "without any delay". The party's manifesto also suggests that these people should be forced to leave in a convoy from Banja Luka across the bridge near Gradiska toward Croatia's border. "We regard the latest call as the most serious threat to the entire population of not only this region but also in a wider area," Bishop Komarica wrote in the letter. In the letter Komarica requested Banja Luka Serb authorities to oppose resolutely this absurd idea and to protect all those whose lives were exposed to such threats of killing, abuse and prosecution. They should do it immediately until it was late, Komarica underlined. The Croatian news agency 'Hina' has also received a copy of the original pamphlet with the call of the Serb Radical Party led by Vojislav Seselj on the ethnic cleansing of Croats and Moslems from the Banja Luka area. (hina) mm mms 101902 MET may 95