HUNGARIANS APPEAL FOR END TO EXPULSIONS FROM SERB-OCCUPIED AREAS

ZAGREB, May 31 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament's House of Representatives continued its session today. The session was addressed by independent representative Ferenc Farago who read an appeal by the Democratic Union of Croatian Hungarians for an end to ethnic cleansing in the occupied areas of Croatia. The appeal said that about 40 percent of the ethnic Hungarians were in exile, half of whom remained to live in occupied areas and the other half sought refuge elsewhere in Croatia. The ethnic cleansing of Hungarians and human rights abuses continued in the Serb-occupied Baranja and Eastern Slavonia regions where the majority of Hungarians had lived before 1991, Farago said. He stressed that the Serbs wanted to drive all non-Serbs out of the regions. In some villages in Baranja, Hungarian and Croat houses were marked with yellow and red paint, which recalled the darkest days of fascism, Farago said. (hina) mm vm 311225 MET may 95