LETTER ON FATE OF MISSING DETAINEES FROM BUGOJNO

LIVNO, April 7 (Hina) - The commission of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) of Bugojno, with its office in Livno, forwarded Thursday an open letter to the President of the Republic of Bosnia- Herzegovina, the Presidential Council of the Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna (HR HB), and to the Medjugorje-based office of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Medjugorje- based office of the International Committee for Human Rights, as well as to media. The letter says that in October 1993 twenty prisoners were taken away from the detention camp placed at the stadium of Bugojno and other prisons in this town in the Central Bosnia (that has been under control of the Moslem-led Bosnian Army since the first half of the last year). The whereabouts of the detainees are still unknown, and even the ICRC is not able to obtain news on their fate, although it has registered some of these prisoners. The letter adds that the both civilian and military authorities of Bugojno know what has happened with the detainees, but they have been keeping in secret the truth about their fate for seven months. 071753 MET apr 94