SERBS COMMIT GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA, ITALIAN "REPUBBLICA" WRITES

ROME, June 5 (Hina) - "During the war in Bosnia Serb committed genocide, as said in the language of law," the Rome-based paper "Repubblica" published today in an article written by its correspondent from New York. This was concluded on the grounds of reports on the war in B-H made by five judges at the U.N. request. The chairman of the commission on preparation of reports, Cheric Bassiouni, U.S. law professor, had already delivered the reports to the U.N. Secretary-General. The "Repubblica" corespondent from Washington underlined that proof on genocide committed by Serb was solid that no court could refute it. "The report comprises 65,000 pages of documents, testimony and statements, 300 hours of video-tapes confirming that the Serb army has systematically carried out ethnical cleansing and rapes." The article pointed out that such acts of crime were not only concomitants of the brutal war but the planned strategies of the Serb army's commanders and its leader Radovan Karadzic. Among many examples stated in the report the article quoted the case of the town of Prijedor (northwestern Bosnia) from which Serbs had exiled 52,811 Moslems and Croats since April 1992. In the conclusion of the article the journalists wrote that the proof on the genocide committed by Serbs was irrefutable, but he wondered whether the world would be willing to punish Serbs for such crime. 051153 MET jun 94