CROATS FROM NW BOSNIA CALL U.N. RAPPORTEUR MAZOWIECKI

ZAGREB, May 19 (Hina) - The Association of the Croats of northwestern Bosnia today forwarded a leter to UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, on account of recent dramatic escalation of ethnic cleansing in Banja Luka area. Following are some highlights of the letter. "Your excellency! During last two years you have visited many areas in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and filed a lot of reports on violations of human rights. But you have never visited the Banja Luka area to learn about the living conditions of Croats and Bosniaks living there in a sort of concentration camp. All the fundamental human rights, expressly ones describes in paragraph 147 V. of the Geneva Convention on Human Rights, were desecrated there long ago. We would like to invite you to visit the area and assure yourself on the situation of these completely deprived people, and to prevent further crimes, before it is too late," the letter said. (Hina) jn bk 192128 MET may 95