========================================================

28. AUGUST 1995.

                     YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



    YUGOSLAV HIGH OFFICIAL ENDS SUCESSFUL VISIT TO WASHINGTON

     W a s h i n g t o n, Aug 26 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Assistent

Foreign  Minister Zivadin Jovanovic Friday evening  ended  his

visit to Washington where he attended the memorial servce  for

the three U.S. diplomats recently killed in Bosnia. During his

stay  in  Washington Jovanovic had a series of  meetings  with

high    officials    of    European    countries,    including

representatives  of  countries members  of  the  international

Contact Group for the former Yugoslavia.

      Jovanovic had interesting and meaningful talks with  U.N

and   E.U.   Mediators  for  the  former  Yugoslavia  Thorvald

Stoltenberg  and  Carl  Bildt and  high  officials  of  Italy,

Britain and France.

       American-Yugoslav  talks  at  the  level  of  heads  of

political  departments  were  held  in  the  State  Department

yesterday. The talks were attended on the U.S. side  by  Chris

Hill, the newly appointed member of the U.S. negotiating  team

for  the former Yugoslavia and Clinton's representative in the

Contact  Group, and on the Yugoslav side by the  Head  of  the

Political  Department at the Foreign Affairs Ministry  Milisav

Pajic. Talks were conducted in a correct atmosphere and  dealt

with  the  peace process in the former Yugoslavia as  well  as

some questions relating to bilateral relations.

       Jovanovic   also   had  a  series  of   meetings   with

representatives of the Media. On Thursday he was the guest  of

the  Washington Post where he spoke about the cirisis  in  the

former  Yugoslavia,  the peace policy of  Serbia  and  of  its

President and the position of the U.S media towards events  in

Yugoslavia, and talked with the Editorial Staff of the paper.

      According  to  well informed sources that  followed  the

Yugoslav delegation's visit to Washington, these could be  the

first  signs of the U.S. policy adopting a more balanced stand

regarding  the  Yugoslav crisis, its causes  and  its  present

development.  The same sources said that Jovanovic's  stay  in

the  U.S.  served  as  a  sort of close-up  promotion  of  the

Yugoslav   policy   and   a   contribution   to   its   better

understanding.



                  TUDJMAN THREATENS SERBS AGAIN

      Z a g r e b, Aug 27 (Tanjug) - Croatian President Franjo

Tudjman  once  again threatened Serbs with war,  stating  that

Croatian army would take eastern Slavonia and Baranja too,  in

the  east of the Republic of Serb Krajina. If the 'liberation'

of  eastern  Slavonia and Baranja does not proceed  peacefully

and  with the help of the international community, there  will

be  new 'storms', Tudjman said Saturday evening in the coastal

town  of  Split,  i.e.  the very day on  which  the  ceasefire

agreement  for  Sector  East concluded  by  Croatian  and  RSK

representatives came into force.

      He  made the statement at a rally organized in Split for

the  arrival  of the first train via the seized Serb  town  of

Knin.  This event is used by Croatian autrhorities  to  create

mass  euphoria  following  the  bloody  'storm'  operation  in

Krajina launched on August 4, during which about a quarter  of

a  million  Serbs were forced to flee from their centuries-old

home land in southern and northern parts of RSK.

      In the atmosphere of unbridled nationalism prevailing in

Croatia  for the past several weeks, Tudjman said triumphantly

that even the big powers must from now on consider Croatia  as

a military power.

      Zagreb  intends to bring back hundreds of  thousands  of

Croat  emigrants from all over the world and  settle  them  in

'liberated' (Serb) areas, which will include eastern  Slavonia

and Baranja in a few months.



          CROATIA STILL REFUSES TO LET SERBS LEAVE KNIN

     B e l g r a d e, Aug 27 (Tanjug) - The Croatian regime is

still preventing hundreds of Serbs sheltered with the U.N.  in

Knin  from  leaving, demanding the surrender  of  alleged  war

criminals. There are 786 Serbs in the U.N. compound  in  Knin,

who  have been given refuge there by the local U.N. Commander,

Canadian  Gen.  Alain Forand, from Croatia's invasion  earlier

this  month.  Croatia's ultimatum is aggravating the  position

not  only  of  the  displaced Serbs,  but  also  of  the  U.N.

personnel  in  Knin, who are facing growing difficulties  with

accommoding them.

      Gen.  Forand told the AFP on Sunday that he was  waiting

for  clear and precise directions what to do to speed  up  the

solution  of the problem, fearing a further worsening  of  the

situation.  He explained that the refugees did not  understand

why   they  were  not  being  allowed  to  leave,  they   were

demoralised and there was even talk of a hunger strike. Forand

added  that among the refugees there were old people who  were

falling ill because of hygiene problems.

      An  overwhelming  majority of  the  Serbs  in  the  U.N.

compound  wish to leave Croatia, and their departure had  been

scheduled for Saturday morning. The Zagreb regime blocked  it,

however, and informed U.N. Special Envoy for former Yugoslavia

Yasushi Akashi in writing that none would be allowed to  leave

until  65  of  their  number  were  handed  over  to  Croatian

authorities  on suspicion of being guilty of war  crimes.  The

U.N.  is demanding that Zagreb submit a detailed list  of  the

suspects with a specific description of what they are  charged

with.  The  U.N.  is  further  asking  that  the  suspects  be

questioned  at  the U.N. base in Knin, in the presence  of  an

international observer. Croatia has complied with  neither  of

the requests.

      Gen.  Alain Forand again repeated his resolve to  resist

the  Croatian intransigence. He vowed that nobody would  leave

the compound without his written permission, and that the U.N.

would not yield on a principle concerning human rights.



   TUDJMAN'S REGIME CELEBRATES EXPULSION OF SERBS FROM KRAJINA

                       by Nikola Stanojevic

      Z  a  g  r  e b, Aug 27 (Tanjug) - The Tudjman  regime's

celebration of the expulsion of Serbs from Krajina  culminated

on  Saturday  in  a Zagreb-Split train ride,  Croatia's  first

through Serb Krajina.

      The victory ride was marked with unprecedented anti-Serb

chauvinist  sentiments, with the travellers and the  multitude

assembled along the track gloating at Croatia's newly-acquired

ethnic  purity.  Many  of  the  statements  made  by  Croatian

President Franjo Tudjman and his associates at stops along the

way  should  give  rise to deep concern on  the  part  of  the

democratic world.

      Their  speeches  again clearly showed that  the  present

regime  aspires  to emulate the fascist Independent  State  of

Croatia  (NDH)  which existed during World War Two  and  where

more  than  a  million Serbs were murdered  in  an  effort  to

destroy  them  as  a  nation. Tudjman's  speeches  in  Zagreb,

Karlovac,  Gospic,  Knin  and  Split  smacked  strongly  of  a

chauvinist  euphoria, clothed in a thesis that the  Serbs  had

'risen  against  the Croatian regime' and the Croatian  people

whom  they  had 'oppressed through history'. Tudjman explained

that  Croatia had 'suffered through the aggression of the Serb

people... who had come to this area three and a half centuries

ago.'

      Serbs  had in fact settled in the area much earlier,  as

evident  from  the fact that their first monasteries  in  Serb

Krajina date as far back as the early 14th century (the  Krupa

monastery, for instance, was built in 1317).

      Tudjman 'the historian' said that in 1941, the Serbs  in

Knin had 'signed an agreement with Italy against the NDH, with

fascist  Italy  to  fight  all things Croatian,'  a  statement

apparently designed to obscure Croatia's fascist past.  As  if

this  were not enough to prove the fascist basis and roots  of

his regime, Tudjman quoted figures to show that, 'in Croatia's

heartland', viz. Knin, in 1991, the population was  barely  14

per cent Croat, and 86 percent Serb.

     However, Tudjman exulted in the fact that the 'Serbs have

just  vanished from this area, as if they never lived here  at

all',  driven  away  by the Croatian Army's  operation  storm,

which  did  not  give them time even to collect  'their  dirty

currency and their dirty undewear'.

      He  eulogised the Croatian war machine, exclaiming  that

'there  can  be  no  going back to what  once  was:  a  cancer

spreading  from  the  living body of Croatia  to  destroy  the

Croatian  national  spirit, to prevent the Croats  from  being

alone, masters in their own land'.

     The statement laid bare the true aim of his regime, which

is to have an ethnically pure Croatia.

      Croatia's  invasion  of  Serb Krajina  has  displaced  a

quarter  of  a  million  Serbs, leaving  behind  barely  three

percent  of  the original Serb community, which had  accounted

for 22 percent of Croatia's population before Tudjman came  to

power in 1990.

      Tudjman, who is gaining a reputation in the world  as  a

Croatian  Duce  (after  Italy's  notorious  Il  Duce,   Benito

Mussolini), threatened Serbs in eastern Slavonia with the same

fate  as  that meted out to the rest of Serb Krajina, boasting

of Croatia being a military power to be reckoned with.



=============

 ICRC SAYS 'MISSING' MUSLIM REFUGEES ARE RECRUITED BY MUSLIM ARMY

                        by Stevan Cordas

     G e n e v a, Aug 26 (tanjug) - Several thousand 'missing'

Muslim  refugees  from  former Muslim  enclaves  of  Zepa  and

Srebrenica,  allegedly  killed by  Bosnian  Serbs,  have  been

recruited in the Muslim Army it can be deduced from the report

of  the ICRC. In its latest bulletin published in Geneva,  the

ICRC  said  that some 30,000 Muslims left Zepa and Srebrenica.

The  bulletin said thatred cross representatives in Bosnia had

received   some  10,000  requests  from  people   asking   the

organisation to help them find their missing cousins, fathers,

brohers and sons.

      While  trying  to  find out where the  several  thousand

missing  men were, red cross representatives were informed  by

Sarajevo  Muslim authorities that they had all been mobilised,

i.e.  recruited  into  the Muslim Army, and  that  'they  were

unable to contact their families'.

      The  ICRC  bulletin  did not specify  how  many  of  the

refugees  from Srebrenica and Zepa were recruited. The  report

only said there were several thousand of them. However, on the

basis  of  the  10,000 requests filed it is not  difficult  to

determine how many of them had donned on Muslim uniforms.

     There were 3,000 members of the regular Muslim Army among

the 30,000 refugees from Srebrenica and Zepa, it stands in the

last  report  of the outgoing U.N. Human Righs Rapporteur  for

the former Yugoslavia Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

      The  U.S. representative to the U.N. Madeleine  Albright

recently  called on the U.N. Security Council  to  conduct  an

urgent  investigation  into the missing Muslim  refugees  from

Zepa  and  Srebrenica. In her usual crude way she accused  the

Bosnian Serbs, and to substantiate the accusations alleged the

existence of mass Muslim graves.

     The fabricated and unproven stories about Muslim refugees

from  Zepa  and Srebrenica were used by some to counterbalance

the enormous humanitarian tragedy of the Krajina Serbs.

      The  reaction  of  all  those who insisted  on  accusing

Bosnian  Serbs  of commiting genocide against the  Muslims  in

Srebrenica and Zepa without any proof remains to be seen.



     MUSLIMS GROSSLY VIOLATING INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

      B  e l g r a d e, Aug. 26 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Health

Minister  Dragan Kalinic addressed a letter Saturday  to  ICRC

Pale  Office head Sandro Barana warning him that Muslims  were

grossly violating the norms of international humanitarian law.

      'Muslim artillery on Friday hit a Serb Sarajevo hospital

facility in Kasindol, seriously injuring four civilians -  two

medical   staff  and  two  patients  -  who  are  in  critical

condition. There was great material damage to the building  as

well,'  said  the letter as carried by the Bosnian  Serb  news

agency SRNA.

      'There was no reason for the hospital, which was clearly

marked with a Red Cross, to be targetted by the military,'  he

said  in  the  letter.  It  was evidently  the  Muslim  Army's

intention yet again to murder civilians, patients and  medical

staff,  the Minister said. He asked Barana to inform the  ICRC

Headquarters  in  Geneva  about the  attack  on  the  Kasindol

hospital  and to condemn this gross violation of international

humanitarian law.



   U.N. FORCE IN BOSNIA LOSES PATIENCE WITH MUSLIM OBSTRUCTION

      B  e l g r a d e, Aug 26 (Tanjug) - The UNPROFOR said on

Saturday  its  patience  was  wearing  thin  with  the  Muslim

Government's  obstruction of the deployment and  supplies  for

the  Rapid  Reaction Force (RRF).    'We are simply not  being

allowed to get our own logistics convoys for the sustenance of

the RRF on mount Igman to move,' Reuters quotes U.N. Spokesman

Chris Vernon as saying.

      'We are not happy and tempers are getting shorter...  If

there  is  not a solution to the freedom of movement thing  we

will  have  to  consider  ways to sustain  the...   soldiers,'

Vernon said.

     Reuters said that UNPROFOR might move to resupply its men

without the Muslim Sarajevo Government's consent.

      The  RRF, which numbers 10,000 mostly British and French

troops,  has  been set up to prevent attacks on  u.n.  troops,

convoys and facilities in Bosnia, Reuters said.

      Their  deployment has been anything but rapid,  however.

About  500  RRF  troops arrived on Mt Igman in July,  but  the

Muslim  Government  has been blocking the  delivery  of  vital

equipment and supplies.

     U.N. officials said on Saturday that four 155 mm guns for

the RRF had arrived on Mt Igman in the morning, completing the

deployment  of the artillery. However, the deployment  of  the

force  is still blocked. U.N. Spokesman Alexander Ivanko  said

that  Muslim  authorities  had halted  29  armoured  personnel

carriers at a checkpoint near Gornji Vakuf in central Bosnia.

      Reuters  said  that  the  bulk  of  the  RRF,  based  in

Tomislavgrad in western Bosnia, was having supply problems and

that  U.N.  officials  had spent weeks  negotiating  with  the

Muslim Government to iron them out.



 E.U. MOSTAR ADMINISTRATOR THREATENS TO WITHDRAW EUROPEAN FORCES

      B  e  l  g  r  a  d  e, Aug 26 (Tanjug) -  The  European

Administrator   for  Mostar  threatend  Friday   to   withdraw

international  police  forces from the southern  Bosnian  city

divided between Muslims and Croats unless local Croats dropped

a blockade on their Muslim neighbours.

      In  a  statement  to German Radio Hans  Koschnik  blamed

Croats  for  keeping  the two communities living  in  separate

ghettos, limiting Muslims' access to the western part  of  the

city  and  blocking their efforts to return to homes they  had

fled, Reuter reports. Local Croats were also refusing to forge

a  common police force with the Muslims and European officials

insisting  that only Croat officers patrol their part  of  the

city.

      Koschnik  said  that there would be no unified  city  of

Mostar without a unified police nor would there be freedom  of

movement of the population from one to the other side  of  the

Neretva river.





==========================================================

01. SEPTEMBER 1995.

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



 SERBIAN PRESIDENT, U.S. NEGOTIATORS HOLD ANOTHER ROUND OF TALKS

      B  e  l  g  r a d e, Aug 31 (Tanjug) - Serbian President

Slobodan  Milosevic ended another round of talks  in  Belgrade

late  on  Thursday with a U.S. negotiating team led by special

Presidential  Envoy  Roberts Owen. After the  Thursday  round,

which  lasted  somewhat  less than  four  hours,  U.S.  Charge

d'affaires  in  Belgrade Rudolf Perina told reporters  briefly

that talks were continuing.

      The  officials discussed ways and means  of  reaching  a

peace  settlement for Bosnia on the basis of  the  U.S.'  plan

which  envisages, among other things, for holding a new  peace

conference.

     The Head negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State Richard

Holbrooke,  is in Zagreb on Thursday, where he  has  met  with

Croatian  and  Bosnian Muslim officials.  They  discussed  the

details  of  the  U.S.  plan  for  ending  the  crisis,  which

Holbrooke  had discussed with president Milosevic in  Belgrade

on Wednesday.



   U.S. ENVOY SAYS REAL NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

      B e l g r a d e, Aug 31 (Tanjug) - U.S. chief negotiator

for  former Yugoslavia Richard Holbrooke said late on Thursday

that  the Bosnian Serbs' agreement to form a joint negotiating

team  with Yugoslavia paved the way for the first real  Bosnia

peace  talks  in  16  months.  Speaking  for  CNN  Television,

Assistant  Secretary  of  State Holbrooke  said  this  was  an

'immensely important procedural breakthrough' in the talks  to

bring  peace  to Bosnia after nearly four years of  war,  news

agencies  reported  from  Washington.  He  said  he  had  been

informed about the agreement by Milosevic in their meeting  in

Belgrade late on Wednesday.



 YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER CONFERS WITH U.S. CONGRESS DELEGATION

      B  e  l  g r a d e, Aug. 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav  Foreign

Minister  Milan Milutinovic here on Thursday told a delegation

of  the U.S. Congress that Yugoslavia was remaining consistent

to its policy of peaceful and just resolution of the crisis in

the  former Yugoslavia and was investing great efforts in  the

current peace initiative to succeed.

      The  delegation to the talks comprised Skoti  Besler,  a

democrat  from  Kentucky,  Mark  Newman,  a  republican   from

Wisconsin,   and   Bredford  Miko  and  Dr.   Roberts   Woods,

representatives  of  the  U.S.  Foundation  for  the  Security

Council  currently visiting Yugoslavia. The visitors expressed

special interest in Yugoslavia's stands related to the current

situation in the region and prospects for a peaceful political

settlement of the crisis.

     The talks focused on the latest U.S. initiative which, as

was  mutually  assessed,  was opening possibilities  to  reach

peace  while respecting equal interests of the parties to  the

conflict.



      KARADZIC: BELGRADE-PALE AGREEMENT IS FAIR AND CORRECT

      B  a  n  j  a  l  u k a, Aug 31 (Tanjug) - Bosnian  Serb

President Radovan Karadzic said on Thursday that the agreement

signed  with the Yugoslav Federation of Serbia and  Montenegro

was fair and correct and represented an attempt to present  an

all-Serbian front. Karadzic told Bosnian Serb Television  that

peace  in  Bosnia was within reach and that the  Serbs'  joint

appearance before the international community would be a first

step towards creating a confederation between the Bosnian Serb

Republic  and Yugoslavia. He said that many matters  might  be

clarified in the first half of September, because there  would

be held important meetings as part of the peace process.

      Karadzic  said that NATO's air strikes were jeopardising

the  peaceprocess, that they had been massive and powerful but

had not attained their primary objective - to move the Bosnian

Serb  Army's defence lines. They wanted to create chaos  among

the  people,  to force them to leave, but did not succeed,  he

said.

     Bosnian Serb Television carried Karadzic's letter to U.N.

Special Envoy for former Yugoslavia Yasushi Akashi which  said

that there had been no reason for the brutal air strikes which

had  caused untold damage. The letter said that there  was  no

reason  to continue this kind of violence and that the Bosnian

Serb  Army  had  not and would not use artillery  against  the

U.N.-designated  'safe areas', but the U.N. should  make  sure

the Serbs were not attacked from the areas.



      BOSNIAN SERB INFORMATION MINISTER: E.U. MONITORS ALIVE

      B a n j a l u k a, Aug. 31 (Tanjug) - E.U. monitors, who

were  claimed  Wednesday to have been killed during  NATO  air

strikes,   were  alive,  Bosnian  Serb  Information   Minister

Miroslav Toholj said Thursday. In a statement to Bosnian  Serb

Republic Radio, Toholj said the E.U. monitors were unhurt  and

have  safely  left the territory of the Bosnian Serb  Republic

Thursday.

      Toholj  explained there were 'security reasons' for  the

five  monitors to be 'protected from the revolt of the  people

and  danger  caused  by an all-out attack of  ground  and  air

forces  of  NATO against the military and civilian targets  in

the  Bosnian Serb Republic.' 'Now they are out of this  danger

and returning to their work and families,' added Toholj.

     Members of the E.U. monitoring team who Thursday left the

Bosnian  Serb Republic are Fernando Sanchez Rau,  Jose  Garcia

Esponera  and  Luis  Zenon Quintana,  all  from  Spain,  James

Fitzgibbon, from Great Britain and Pieter Schoonenwolf of  the

Netherlands.

       The  E.U.  Office  in  Podgorica  announced  Wednesdsay

afternoon that the five-men monitoring team was killed at Pale

at  the  time of NATO air attack on the positions  of  Bosnian

Serbs.



           NEW NATO AIR STRIKES ON THE SERBS IN BOSNIA



    BOSNIAN SERB ARMY REPORTS ANOTHER NATO AIR STRIKE ON PALE

      B  a  n  j  a l u k a, Aug 31 (Tanjug) - NATO  warplanes

launched  another air strike on pale at 09:10 hrs  local  time

(0710  gmt) on Thursday, the Bosnian Serb Radio said  and  the

Bosnian  Serb Army Geneneral Staff Press Office confirmed.  No

details  about  the  attack have been released  as  yet.  NATO

warplanes on Wednesday more than once bombed the area of Pale.

      The Bosnian Serb Radio quoted the SKY Television network

as  saying  that 12 different Bosnian Serb targets could  come

under  NATO  air  strikes on Thursday. It said  these  targets

could be anti-aircraft defense facilities, mobile and immobile

missile  systems and even hand grenade launchers in case  they

were fired at NATO planes.



         NATO BOMBS BOSNIAN SERB VILLAGES ON MOUNT OZREN

     B e l g r a d e, Aug 31 (Tanjug) - Several civilians were

killed  on  Thursday in a NATO air raid on  the  Bosnian  Serb

villages  of  Kalauzovici and Komar, near  the  Mt.Ozren,  the

Bosnian Serb Radio said. The NATO aircraft bombed the villages

on  two occasions although there are no military or industrial

facilities in that area, the Bosnian Serb Radio said and added

that extensive material damage had been caused.

      French and British troops with the Rapid Reaction  Force

on Mt.Igman shelled all day Serb civilian and military targets

in  all  parts  of Serb-held Sarajevo, the Bosnian  Serb  news

agency  SRNA said. The RRF shelled Lukavica, Serb  suburbs  at

the  foot  of  Mt.Igman and the suburb of Vogosca. Immediately

after  the shelling of serb targets by the RRF, Muslims opened

heavy artillery fire on civilian targets in Ilidza.



             NATO AGAIN RAIDS BOSNIAN SERB POSITIONS

      B  e  l  g  r  a d e, Aug 31 (Tanjug) - NATO  planes  on

Thursday  afternoon  resumed  their  raids  on  Bosnian   Serb

positions, NATO Command in Brussels said. The AFP quotes  NATO

Spokesman  Jamie  Shea  as saying that  air  strikes  were  in

progress, but without specifying their targets.

      NATO  Spokesman in Naples Jim Mitchell, too, refused  to

identify  the  strikes'  targets  and  their  locations,   and

confirmed  only that there had been 'some air strikes  today,'

according  to  Reuters.  'The bombing will  continue...  These

operations include airstrikes, air cover, reconnaissance,  and

of  course search and rescue operations are continuing for the

two French pilots (shot down over Pale on Wednesday),' Reuters

quotes him as saying.

      NATO  planes carried out on Wednesday four massive raids

on  Bosnian  Serb positions in the Sarajevo area, wide  around

the  town  of Gorazde and on Mt Majevica in the northeast,  as

well as in the Cajnice area in the southeast.

      NATO  Southern Commander Admiral Leighton Smith said  in

Naples on Thursday that the air strikes were a brilliant piece

of  work and had achieved significant successes. Admiral Smith

said that not a single civilian target had been hit in the  36

hours  of NATO's operation deliberate force, during which  the

air force had flown about 300 sorties.



             NATO AIR STRIKES RUIN U.N. IMPARTIALITY

      B  e  l g r a d e, Aug. 31 (Tanjug) - Moscow on Thursday

condemned  NATO  air strikes against Bosnian  Serb  positions,

assessing  that  this  action placed into  question  the  U.N.

impartiality.  Russian  Foreign  Ministry  Spokesman   Grigory

Karasin was quoted by foreign news agencies as saying that the

NATO  operation,  for its large proportions,  appeared  to  be

something more than a punitive action because it was  directed

towards  military  as  well  as  infrastructural  targets  and

buildings.

       Karasin  noted  that  the  role  of  the  international

community  was  to help people in the pursuit  of  a  peaceful

settlement.

      Karasin also made known that the NATO operation had been

carried  out without previous accord with Moscow. He  said  no

military  action had been discussed within the  Contact  Group

and  the other four members - the U.S., Great Britain, France,

Germany   -  had  left  an  impression  they  were  continuing

political efforts.

     Karasin noted that the situation was critical, assessing,

however, that all peace initiatives were still open.



   LAVROV: RUSSIA SEEKS URGENT END TO NATO OPERATION IN BOSNIA

      B  e  l  g r a d e, Aug 31 (Tanjug) - Russia demands  an

urgent end to be put to military operations against the  Serbs

in  Bosnia,  Russian  U.N. Ambassador Sergei  Lavrov  said  on

Thursday.  In presenting Moscow's official stand, Lavrov  told

the  Russian  Itar-Tass news agency that the joint  action  of

NATO  and  the  RRF  against Bosnian Serbs  on  Wednesday  was

overstepping the mandate this force had received from the U.N.

Security Council.

     Lavrov explained that the termination of these operations

was  urged  by  the Russian delegation also  at  the  Security

Council's closed-door consultations on Wednesday. He said  the

russian delegation at this meeting reiterated President  Boris

Yeltsin's  proposal  to have a peace conference  convened  for

representatives of all the warring sides in former  Yugoslavia

and all mediator countries to participate. Yeltsin proposed on

Wednesday that this conference be held somewhere in Europe  in

October to allow time for preparations.

      Having  recalled that the NATO and RRF  strike  was  the

response to a mortar attack in sarajevo - which killed tens of

civilians and for which the Bosnian Serbs were blamed  by  the

U.N.  - Lavrov said Russia had demanded an inquiry which would

unequivocally  determine whether the  guilt  for  this  attack

could be attributed to Bosnian Serbs.

     In assessing as profoundly disturbing the strength of the

response, Lavrov said that Moscow was upset in the first place

by  the  fact that taking part in this response were not  only

NATO  aircraft, as foreseen by U.N. resolutions, but also  the

RRF,  which  was set up to protect U.N. peacekeepers  and  act

within the UNPROFOR's mandate. The UNPROFOR's mandate does not

provide for the destruction of the military potential  of  one

of the parties to the conflict, Lavrov said.

      Lavrov  said Russia did not want the situation developed

so  that an impression be gained that not only NATO, but  also

the  U.N.  - in the service of which NATO is - had sided  with

one  of the parties to the conflict. Lavrov said Russia sought

strict  security  for  U.N peacekeepers,  especially  for  the

Russian  battalion as the only U.N. peacekeeping unit deployed

in  the Bosnian Serb-controlled part of Sarajevo. Lavrov  said

he believed the arguments he presented would be effective.



BELGRADE PEACE POLICY SCORES VICTORY: DISSOCIATION FROM WAR
OPTION

               by diplomatic editor Zoran Jevdjovic

      B  e  l  g  r  a d e, Aug 31 (Tanjug) - In  their  first

reactions,  diplomatic circles in Belgrade see a  decision  by

the  Bosnian  Serb leadership to coordinate its stand  on  the

peace  process  with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia  as  a

victory  of Belgrade's peace policy and dissociation from  the

unrealistic   war   option  and  voluntarism,   which   caused

unnecessary deaths and continued suffering and destructions.

      The  agreement  signed in Belgrade  on  Tuesday  by  the

highest  Yugoslav and Bosnian Serb officials shows that  Pale,

the  administrative centre of the Bosnian Serb  Republic,  has

come   to  sensible  conclusions  about  the  current  crucial

interest  of  the entire Serb people and the  Serb  people  in

Bosnia in particular.

      After  one year of refusals, the Bosnian Serb leadership

has  complied  with demands and advice coming  from  Belgrade,

finally  realizing the possible consequences of  pursuing  the

current  policy and having in mind doubtless political defeats

in the long run and recent military defeats.

      Unfortunately, thirteen months have been lost in  futile

tugging  and  pointless swaggering which sapped the  strategic

position of the Serb people in the former Yugoslavia,  and  in

refusing to implement a policy which has been gradually shaped

for  several  years  through  diplomatic  efforts  by  Serbian

President Slobodan Milosevic.

      From  hindsight it is obvious that the position  of  the

Bosnian  Serb Republic could have been different and that  the

genocidal action of the Croatian Army and the tragic exodus of

the Serbs could have been avoided.

      It is necessary to point out that the agreement includes

provisions  which  prevent personal interests  and  malevolent

obstruction  of the talks from blocking the peace process  and

deteriorating the situation.

       One   can  only  hope  that  the  time  of  unrealistic

expectations and unreasonable actions is left behind and  that

time  has finally come for an agreement with the international

community and a peaceful settlement of the crisis.

      The  joint  Belgrade-Pale delegation,  coordinated  with

Belgrade's  peace efforts, paves the way for an  international

conference  with  big powers which could shortly  bring  about

results and resolve the crisis in the former Yugoslavia.



      U.N. UNCOVERS MORE CRIMES OF CROATIAN ARMY IN KRAJINA

      B  e l g r a d e, Aug 31 (Tanjug) - U.N. representatives

have  been  discovering  more traces of  the  Croatian  army's

crimes  in Krajina three weeks after 'operation storm'  ended.

Early  august  the  Croatian  army  occupied  Krajina  in  its

'operation storm' when around 250,000 Krajina Serbs left their

homes.

      U.N.  Zagreb  Spokesman Christopher Gunnes told  newsmen

Thursday  that  U.N. monitors had found the  remains  of  five

killed  people  in  the village of Golubic outside  Knin.  The

French  AFP agency quoted Gunnes as saying that in the village

of  Radasnica  the bodies of two men were recovered,  and  the

head of one of the victims was found some fifty metres away.

      Gunnes  said  the Croatian army was still  torching  and

looting Serb homes in the territory (Sectors South and  North)

taken during 'operation storm'.

      Gunnes  said that in the village of Vrace, U.N. civilian

police  saw  on  Wednesday four houses  on  fire  and  firemen

standing there, watching the scene and doing nothing.  In  the

village  of  Golubici, Gunnes said, two  houses  were  burning

while  one  Croatioan soldier was sighted  plundering  a  Serb

house. Gunnes said that the Croatian authorities were all  the

time   kept   informed  about  these  cases  but,   he   said,

unfortunately no efficient order has been issued to  end  such

practice.

      The  AFP said that since the Croatian operation  against

Krajina ended, the U.N. had reported to the Zagreb authorities

several hundred cases of Serb houses burned down or looted  by

Croatian soldiers.

      The Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) said that about 80

and 70 per cent of all Serb houses were burned or destroyed in

the  Knin  and  Donji  Lapac regions. HHO representatives,  on

their tour of Krajina last week, registered a large number  of

killings  of  Serb  civilians and voiced reasonable  suspicion

that mass graves did exist.



    CROATIAN SOLDIERS USED NARCOTICS IN ATTACKS AGAINST SERBS

      L  o  n  d o n, Aug 31 (Tanjug) - Croatian officers  and

military   physicians  regularly  administered  narcotics   to

soldiers,  before armed actions against Serbs, to allay  their

fears  and  stimulate them for fighting, the  London  Guardian

said  on  Thursday. The paper quoted a testimony by a Croatian

soldier  who  is  being  treated from drug  addiction  at  the

largest  European Centre for Drug Addicts in the Italian  town

of San Patrignano.

      Davor, 29, said that he had received drugs twice  a  day

from his military physician and that it was a routine so as to

prepare   soldiers  for  committing  atrocities  demanded   by

officers. Davor said he had not had any contact with narcotics

before his four years in the Croatian Army.

      Four  Croatian soldiers are being treated in the Italian

Centre,  and  they have all confirmed Davor's  words.  One  of

them,  Toni, 23, said that the drugged soldiers were the  most

zealous  in perpetrating atrocities, torching Serb houses  and

property.  They even searched killed Serbs for  money  to  buy

additional  doses of heroin, he said. The Croatian  Government

has  intentionally recruited registered drug-addicts  for  the

army, Toni said.





=======================================================

04. SEPTEMBER 1995.



      MILOSEVIC RECEIVES U.S. NEGOTIATING TEAM FOR TALKS

      B  e  l  g r a d e, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Serbian President

Slobodan Milosevic on Sunday had talks with a U.S. negotiating

team  headed by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke

on a settlement of the crisis in Bosnia.

      The  officials  exchanged views on preparations  for  an

international  conference on peace in the region  at  which  a

definitive  settlement for peace in Bosnia should  be  reached

and  conditions  set for lasting peace and  stability  in  the

region.

      A  preliminary meeting to be held in Geneva  later  this

week should accelerate the negotiating process.

      Attending the talks was Yugoslav Foreign Minister  Milan

Milutinovic.



DEMURENKO REFUTES OFFICIAL VERSION OF BLAST IN SARAJEVO AS FOR

GERY

      M  o  s  c  o w, Sept. 2 (Tanjug) - Chief of the  United

Nations peace force staff in 'Sector Sarajevo' Russian Colonel

Andrei Demurenko said on Saturday that the results of the U.N.

commission's inquiry into the August 28 blast in Sarajevo were

- falsified.

      Fire  had not been opened from those positions indicated

in  the  official  document on the causes of  the  tragedy  in

Sarajevo's central market place where over one hundred  people

were killed or injured on

August 28, said Demurenko.

      He told Russian journalists in Zagreb that, relying upon

the calculated paths of the mortar shell and the configuration

of  the  ground,  he  had still earlier doubted  the  official

version  according  to which shells were fired  on  Sarajevo's

market by Serbs.

     Now no one in the world can prove that the United Nations

commission's findings are exact, Demurenko reaffirmed.

      Russian  reporters  from Zagreb  said  that  Demurenko's

assertions were based on his own investigation.

      Despite disproval by U.N. representatives, Demurenko and

one assistant were searching those points which were noted  in

the  official  report as the 'probable positions'  from  which

fire  was  opened.  The photographs of these  points  and  the

corresponding  calculations now are in my  hands.  Their  most

important  part is in a secure place, so that in  case  of  my

arrest nothing will change, said Demurenko.

      Demurenko's  conclusion was that the political  decision

that  allowed  NATO  air  strikes and Rapid  Reaction  Force's

attacks  against  Bosnian Serb targets had been  made  on  the

basis of fabricated data.



              SERB ARMY DOWN UNMANNED NATO PLANE

      Nevesinje, Belgrade, Sept. 3 (Tanjug) - Military sources

of   the   Bosnian  Serb  Republic  stated  on   Sunday   that

anti-aircraft   defense  units  of  the  Bosnian   Serb   Army

Herzegovina Corps downed Saturday

evening an unmanned plane which, according to the signs on the

equipment and on the plane itself, certainly belonged to NATO.

      The  unmanned  plane was downed in the  Mostar-Nevesinje

part of the battlefield during a reconnaissance-spy mission, a

Bosnian Serb military source said. In the area where the plane

was  downed,  NATO planes bombed in three waves Serb  civilian

and  military  targets, dropping over 200 destructive  rockets

and  bombs, of which some were heavy over 2,000 kilograms. The

plane,  with a wing span of 16 meters and 12 meters long,  was

equipped   with  two  cameras  and  other  most  sophisticated

electronic equipment intended for reconnaissance-spy purposes,

Bosnian Serb Republic military sources also said.



   CROATIAN NARCOTIC DRUG UNITS UNDERGO TREATMENT IN ITALY

      Lj  u b lj a n a, Sept. 3 (Tanjug) - A group of Croatian

soldiers,  members  of special outfits  who  have  been  given

narcotics  regularly  before  combat  actions,  have  recently

arrived for treatment at a centre for drug addicts outside the

Italian  town of Rimini, the Ljubljana Slovenske Novice  daily

has said in its latest issue.

       The   paper  said  that  all  these  soldiers,   before

recruitment into the Croatian army, had been normal young men.

Once in special units, they were given heroin before going out

into armed actions.

      One  of  the soldiers, Davor, 29, told Italian  TV-radio

that  he was systematically addicted to heroin in the Croatian

army.

      He said he had not earlier known anything about narcotic

drugs,  but  in  Bosnia, he and other soldiers were  at  first

given heroin only periodically before they began to receive it

every  day  right ahead of going into action. All  of  us,  he

said,  were  receiving heroin daily to be  able  to  hold  out

stress and stifle fear of combat.

      Italian reporters have been showing interest in the drug

addicted  soldiers  who arrived in their country  for  medical

treatment.

       The  Rimini  authorities  fear  that  hosting  Croatian

soldiers could provoke a scandal, the Slovenian paper said  in

conclusion.





=============================================

7. SEPTEMBER 1995.

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



       THE AIM OF NATO STRIKES IS CHANGING BALANCE OF POWER



      B  a  nj  a  l  u k a, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - NATO  strikes  on

military and civilian targets in the Bosnian Serb Republic are an

aggression  that is synchronised with the attacks of Muslim-Croat

forces,  a statement of the Bosnian Serb Army General Staff  said

Wednesday.

      The statement said that the stepped up Muslim-Croat attacks

in the past few days substantiated this claim.

     The statement, signed by Chief of General Staff Gen. Manojlo

Milovanovic, said that the aim of the air raids was to change the

balance of power in the area of Bosnia-Herzegovina to the  profit

of  the Muslim-Croat coalition, with the help of NATO planes  and

the Rapid Reaction Force.

      The  General Staff said that these aims were far from being

realised. Considerable material damage had been caused and losses

sustained among Bosnian Serb troops and civilians, it added.

      The  statement said that the Croat and Muslim forces, which

had  launched powerful attacks parallelly with the NATO aviation,

had  sustained far greater losses. The Bosnian Serb Command  said

that  all its defense lines were stable and that the Bosnian Serb

Army  had  a  strategic initiative in the western  parts  of  the

front.

      Commander of the Bosnian Serb Army General Staff Gen. Ratko

Mladic  and  Chief  of  General Staff  Gen.  Milovanovic  are  in

constant contact and are coordinating actions in the western  and

eastern  fronts and in other parts of the Bosnian Serb  Republic,

it said.

      'The  Bosnian Serb Army and people are determined and ready

to   defend  the  borders  of  the  Bosnian  Serb  Republic,  its

territory, the Serb people and their state,' the statement said.

      It  said  that  the Bosnian Serbs were  at  the  same  time

defending  themselves from the NATO air operation  with  success,

and  the  downing of a number of aircraft in NATO combat  actions

was proof of this.



          NATO IS TRYING TO COVER UP CIVILIAN CASUALTIES



      B  e  l  g r a d e, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - A NATO Spokesman  in

Brussels  said  on  Wednesday that its air strikes  had  targeted

solely on Bosnian Serb military positions, but southern Commander

U.S.  Admiral  Leighton Smith admitted that  certain  'collateral

damage' had occurred.

      Admiral  Smith did not use the words 'civilian casualties,'

but  rather a phrase employed by western officers when they  want

to avoid the embarrassment of mentioning civilian deaths.

      Despite  NATO's  efforts to cover  up  the  extent  of  the

'collateral  damage,'  facts about Serb civilian  casualties  are

surfacing.   A   number  of  western  TV  stations   showed   the

consequences of last week's air raids, while Reuters news  agency

on  Wednesday carried a story on the civilian casualties  in  the

Serb part of Sarajevo.

     Reuters said that about 250 Serb civilians had taken shelter

from  the  bombs in the basement of the technical  university  in

Sarajevo's Lukavica suburb.

      The university building, which is still being shelled,  was

heavily damaged last Wednesday, the first day of the NATO blitz.

      On  Tuesday, NATO's fighter-bombers blew up a water  supply

station  located on a nearby hill, thus leaving without  drinking

water  the hospital in Sarajevo's Kasindol suburb, the hospital's

Director  dr. Zdravko Zdralje said. Zdralje said that  the  water

station was used solely for civilian purposes.

      The  Bosnian  Serb  TV  carried a  story  showing  a  house

completely  demolished by the shelling in which a man was  killed

and a woman and two children injured.

      A  60-year-old woman said that the air strikes reminded her

of  the  nazi bombings during World War Two which she experienced

in her childhood.

      While  bombs are falling on Sarajevo, U.S. pilots on  board

the aircraft carrier Theodore Rosevelt on station in the Adriatic

seem to be unaware they are becoming war criminals.

      'It  is  good to be doing something constructive,  to  bomb

someone,' Reuters quoted a sailor who was bored with the  waiting

for the start of the operation.

      'We  feel  we  have fulfilled out mission,' another  sailor

said.



          ABOUT 100 CIVILIANS KILLED IN NATO AIR STRIKES



      B  a nj a L u k a, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - The General Staff  of

the  Bosnian  Serb  Army  said  late  Wednesday  that  about  100

civilians  have  been killed and several hundred wounded  in  the

NATO air strikes so far.

      The  statement  was  released by  the  Staff's  Information

Service  'on  the  occasion  of the  continued  unscrupulous  and

barbaric  bombing  of  Bosnian Serb territory  by  the  NATO  air

force.'   'With such air strikes the world's power wielders  show

their  option  that  NATO use force to help Muslims  occupy  Serb

Sarajevo,' said the statement.

       NATO   planes  have  'dropped  several  hundred  tons   of

devastating bombs and missiles on districts of Serb Sarajevo, the

Romanija  plateau,  Mt.  Majevica, Grebak,  Kalinovik,  Visegrad,

Cajnice,  Srbinje, Han Pijesak, Doboj, and other places,  killing

about  a  hundred innocent civilians and wounding several hundred

others,' said the statement.

      'Criminal  airplanes  of the western alliance  aimed  their

deadly  cargo  at health centers, schools, transformer  stations,

workers' and refugee restaurants, postal centers, radio stations,

water   system  reservoirs  of  drinking  water,  warehouses   of

humanitarian  aid,  TV and radio relays, agricultural  farms  and

other  civilian  objects, some as many as 100 km  away  from  the

frontline,' said the statement.

      Before  the statement was released, Bosnian Serb  President

Radovan  Karadzic urged an end to the NATO air strikes.  Speaking

for  CNN TV from the Bosnian Serb administrative center of  Pale,

Karadzic said that civilians as well as military targets had been

heavily  damaged  in  the NATO actions which have  been  underway

since last Wednesday.

     The Bosnian Serb Army Command said that 'simultaneously with

the  launching of the latest bombing operations by the  NATO  air

force  and Rapid Reaction Force, Muslim forces from the so-called

protected  area  of  Sarajevo set off in  several  directions  to

attack Serb defense positions and carry out new terrorist actions

in efforts to maintain anti-Serb sentiment in world media.'

      'There is no doubt that the latest barbaric action  by  the

NATO  air  force  and  Rapid Reaction Force intervention  against

Serbs  are  proof  of the extremely biased stand  of  the  United

States,  and  thus also the NATO force and the  UNPROFOR,  toward

one of the sides in the conflict,' the  statement concluded.



     GALBRAITH: SERBS IN BOSNIA TO HAVE LINKS WITH YUGOSLAVIA



      Z  a  g r e b, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - U.S. Ambassador in Zagreb

Peter Galbraith said Tuesday evening that the Serb part of Bosnia

would be able to link up with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

      He  said  for the Croatian state television that  the  Serb

entity   in  Bosnia  would  have  similar  links  to  those   the

Muslim-Croat  federation had with Croatia. He  added  that  there

were  in  the U.S. plan clauses about this which had  yet  to  be

negotiated.

      In his view, neither of the two entities in Bosnia would be

internationally recognized as a state as Bosnia-Herzegovina as  a

whole would be internationally recognized.



               TRACES OF GENOCIDE IN SERB VILLAGES



      Z  a  g r e b, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - The President of the Serb

National  Party in Zagreb Milan Djukic said Wednesday that  Donji

Lapac  and  surrounding villages in Lika, in  the  south  of  the

Republic  of  Serb Krajina, were totally destroyed  in  operation

Storm only because they were Serb.

      Djukic  told  reporters that he had seen  for  himself  the

extent  of  the  looting and torching of Serb  property  when  he

visited Donji Lapac several days earlier.

      There were no more Serbs left in Donji Lapac, the monuments

were  torn down and the graves dug out, while a smell of  burning

spread  over  the  entire area and there were visible  traces  of

genocide, he said.

       He   said  that  those  in  Croatia's  top  echelons  were

responsible for such a state of affairs from Franjo Tudjman, Jure

Radic,  Adalbert  Rebic   to  Bosiljko Misetic  whose  statements

contributed to the realisation of a policy that expels Serbs  and

violates the constitution.

      The situation is further aggravated by the passive stand of

the  opposition and the Croatian people who are not raising their

voice  against what Djukic termed as 'barbaric acts' towards  the

Serbs.



            NATO ATTACKS ON SERBS ENCOURAGING MUSLIMS



      L  o  n  d o n, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - NATO attacks on  Bosnian

Serbs  could  jeopardise the continuation  of  the  Bosnia  peace

process  because  they are encouraging the  Muslim  side,  London

dailies wrote Wednesday.

      Every  new  NATO strike is actually the fulfilment  of  the

Muslim Government demands, The Independent said warning that  the

Muslims could, encouraged by the continued bombing of the  Serbs,

practically reject any agreement by posing new conditions.

      Since the Muslim Government succeeded in involving NATO  on

its  side  in  the  civil  it  was no longer  interested  in  any

compromise peaceful solution, the paper said.

      No  one  in  the  west seems ready to pressure  the  Muslim

Government  especially since the Muslims have been  portrayed  as

the  greatest  victims of the war by the media,  The  Independent

said.

      The  Financial Times said that NATO's bombing policy  could

backfire  on  the  west by causing even greater rifts  among  the

allies, which could jeopardise overall relations in the world.

      If  the  latest  peace initiative for Bosnia  does  succeed

however  a  peace agreement should be concluded  by  the  end  of

september, the British papers said quoting U.S. sources.

      The  western  allies have already started preparations  for

forming  a  so-called  peace  implementation  force  which  would

replace the present U.N. Protection Force.

      According  to the plan, the west would send between  40,000

and   70,000  troops  to  Bosnia  who  would  be  deployed  along

separation lines, The Daily Telegraph wrote.

      The force would remain in Bosnia until the end of next year

and  would  then be replaced by a 12,000-strong NATO  force,  the

paper said.



       WESTERN SECRET SERVICES ORGANIZED SARAJEVO BOMBING



      B  e  l  g r a d e, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - Top Russian military

intelligence  officers said that the bombing of  civilians  at  a

Sarajevo  market, which triggered NATO air raids on Bosnian  Serb

positions,  were  masterminded by western secret  services  as  a

pretext  for the bombings and were executed by forces  of  Muslim

army Commander Rasim Delic.

      This,  as  the  officers  told the Russian  ITAR-TASS  news

agency,  pertained  to  the  Aug. 28 explosion  which  killed  37

people.

      The  Russian  experts, who just returned  from  the  former

Yugoslavia  and  spoke on condition of anonymity, specified  that

the  western  secret services launched as early as February  this

year the 'Cyclone-1' operation aimed at discrediting the Serbs in

Bosnia  before  the world public. What ensued was mass  anti-Serb

hysteria  in  the  media  and the idea  about  NATO  bombing  was

advanced.

      Later, the Russian experts say, it became clear to the U.N.

personnel  that  the Serbs could not physically have  staged  the

explosion that killed a large number of civilians. Although  such

reports  appeared  for  a brief time in the  western  media,  the

mechanism of retaliation had already been launched.

      The  latest  bombing of civilians near  Sarajevo's  Markale

market  was  part  of the 'Cyclone-2' operation launched  because

autumn  was already approaching and poor weather conditions  were

deteriorating for the Muslim military actions. Another  goal  was

to  force  the military leaders to make a quick decision.  Firing

the grenade at this particular time had been carried out from the

roof  of  a building that was close to the said Sarajevo  market,

said the Russian experts.

       The  Russian  secret  service  came  to  learn  about  the

'Cyclone-2' operation on Aug. 20 and informed the Croats, Germans

and  Americans.  They,  however, did nothing  to  cut  short  the

provocation and kept silent about the information.

      The  Russian  experts blamed the U.N.  Command  for  biased

investigation and said its results were predetermined.

      In  the  field, the operation was executed by men of  Rasim

Delic,  the   Muslim  Commander, whom  the  Russian  intelligence

officers  describe as having been an officer in the army  of  the

former Yugoslavia in charge of a military dump and as having been

selling  property from the dump on the black market. Had not  the

former  Yugoslavia  broken  up, they  say,  he  would  have  been

convicted for his shady dealings.



     LIBERATION ABOUT TORCHING AND PLUNDERING OF SERB HOUSES



      P  a r i s, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - One month after the Croatian

conquest,  the  Knin Krajina abandoned by the Serb population  is

still on fire, the Paris daily Liberation wrote Wednesday.

      The  plundering  of abandoned Serb houses  has  become  the

favourite  week-end  pastime  of the  population  of  surrounding

villages  - special correspondent of the French daily  from  Knin

Elen Despic Popovic wrote, pointing out that while she toured the

region in the last 48 hours she counted over 15 torched houses.

     Even Knin  was not spared, the daily said.

      Official Croatian spokesmen claim, allegedly, that they  do

not  have  enough policemen to protect Serb property,  the  daily

wrote,  and added that a U.N. patrol which was warned  about  the

fire  was  prevented by the police from coming  to  the  spot  in

central Knin.

     'The next day an entire block of houses was turned to ashes,

and only six chimneys were left', the daily said, noting that the

Croatian authorities had informed that the fire was caused by  an

electrical failure.

      All international monitors have come to the same conclusion

that the goal was intentional destruction whose final purpose  is

that  Serbs  from  Krajina be prevented from returning  to  their

homes, the daily said.

      The  daily quoted the official U.N. Spokesman in Knin, Alan

Roberts,  that  all  Serbs are targeted by  Croatian  destruction

whether they live in the city or in the village, and at the  same

time  Roberts  cautioned that the 'destruction of villages  meant

the cutting of the roots of Serbs.'

     In Krajina, entire villages have ceased to exist - the daily

said, citing the example of Kistanje, south of Knin, which  is  a

wasteland with only the Orthodox church left intact.

      Croatian authorities 'do not give an explanation  how  they

were  able to save the church from destruction, and not the  Serb

houses,' the daily said.

     Pointing out that the number of victims will never be known,

the  Croatian  aggression on Krajina was  carried  out  with  the

'tacit approval of the international community', the daily  said,

and  added  that a source of growing concern is the assertion  of

international humanitarian organisations that the 'harassment  of

the elderly who stayed behind in Krajina is continuing.'

      The  daily added that the livestock of Serb inhabitants  is

'systematically  poached  or killed'  and  that  Serbs  are  left

without any source of livelihood.'

      U.N.  patrols  are finding the bodies of old people  killed

after the cessation of hostilities - the daily said, quoting  the

statement  of  an unnamed member of a U.N. patrol  that  'of  the

seven victims he found personally, six had been shot in the  back

of the head'.



              ETHNIC CLEANSING OF SERBS ALMOST OVER



      Lj  u  b  lj  a n a, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - Croatian opposition

politician  Stipe Suvar said that ethnic cleansing  of  Serbs  in

Croatia  was  almost over. Suvar said that there  remained  about

130,000  Serbs  in Croatia as against the 700,000 Serbs  who  had

previously lived there.

      In  an  interview with the Slovenian workers' paper Delvska

Enotnost,  Suvar  said that the number of Serbs  in  Croatia  had

dropped from 12% to about two percent.

      In  this  century,  Croatian  nationalism  has  strived  to

eliminate Serbs in Croatia and has now achieved its aim.  Nowhere

in  Europe has nationalism been so successful in ethnic cleansing

like in Croatia, Suvar  said.

      Croatian  President Franjo Tudjman decided  to  achieve  in

another  context what Ante Pavelic had failed to do,  Suvar  said

adding  that Croatia would be disgraced for a long time for  what

it did, although it would be eager to conceal it.

      Suvar quoted figures from the 1981 census and said that  he

doubted  in  the truthfulness of the 1991 census as the  Yugoslav

crisis and national euphoria in Croatia had already erupted.

      According  to  the  1981 census, there were  531,502  Serbs

(11,50%)  and  379,057 Yugoslavs (8.2%) in Croatia,  Suvar  said.

There  was about 20% of non-Croatian population (Serbs, Yugoslavs

and  those  who did not declare themselves) in Croatia  in  1981,

Suvar said.

     Serbs and Yugoslavs constituted a majority in between 10 and

15 municipalities. A total of 202,787 Serbs and 228,015 Yugoslavs

or  more than one-third of the total population lived in  the  14

largest  cities  (Zagreb,  Karlovac,  Slavonski  Brod,  Vinkovci,

Vukovar,  Pula, Rijeka, Sisak, Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik,  Zadar,

and Varazdin), Suvar said.

      Suvar  pointed out that the Orthodox monastery of Krka  was

700  years  old  and  that the Croatian  people  were  blind  and

ignorant.  That  can explain their wish to see  the  Serbs  leave

Croatia, he said.

      Suvar said that they had forgotten that the Serbs had lived

in  those  lands for at least 300 hundred or four hundred  years,

and   some  even  700  years.  Those  Serbs  and  Croats  guarded

christianity  as  a striking fist of the Austro-Hungarian  Empire

and the west, Suvar said.





