CROATS AND SERBS CANNOT LEAVE ZENICA FREELY

ZENICA, Dec 4 (Hina) - The Mayor of the town of Zenica (Central Bosnia), Besim Spahic, informed the international organizations that free Croats' and Serbs' leaving of Zenica had been stopped, broadcast the Zenica radio on Saturday morning. The suspension of the decision that women, children and the sick persons of the Croatian and Serbian nationality be enabled to leave the town freely, was made after the accusations of the international press that it was an act of ethnic cleansing, said the same radio. The Croatian Defence Council (HVO) of Vitez evaluated such a decision on the suspension to be cynical, since the Croats and Serbs, who could be conscripted and who were mobilized in the Moslem-led B-H Army by force so far in order to be sent to fight the HVO units in Central Bosnia, could not leave Zenica anyway. 041132 MET dec 93