Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-05-06

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CONTENTS

[01] BULATOVIC AND BILDT TALK ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON ACCORDS

He repeated that after the lifting of the UN sanctions against Republika Srpska the RS leadership had in a way imposed sanctions on itself by failing to attend the donors' conference in Brussels which was detrimental to them and to the people of Republika Srpska and was something the international community did not want. Bildt stressed he would do everything to overcome the existing problems and to promote the good sides that are already visible in the peace process.

[02] REHN: HOUSES NEITHER DESTROYED NOR TORCHED IN RASKA VILLAGE

Rehn said it was not her fault Mazowiecki had made a grave mistatke when sending a report to the UN from the area and that she wanted to present what she had seen and the way she had seen it.

[03] YUGOSLAV PATHOLOGIST PRESENTS EVIDENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST SERBS

Stankovic said that 'having spent fifteen days in Mrkonjic Grad, I could see only the scenes of horror. Bodies had been buried at depths of 2.30 metres in holes full of water.' Stankovic said that 187 bodies were found there (139 identified), among them 102 had head injuries characteristic of crimes committed by Croats. He said that comprehensive photo records have been made, with precisely defined localities, photographs of bodies, registered injuries and with the data on identified bodies.

Stankovic observed that the Hague tribunal has received evidence on the Croats' responsibility for the crimes at Gospic in 1991, when 110Sserb intellectuals were taken to an unknown destination, whereas the Gague tribunal has not yet started relevant investigation. He said he also had data on a mass grave in the vicinity of Gorazde where an exhumation would soon be performed.

'My duty, with regard to 3,500 bodies on which I have performed autopsies in the past five years, is to cooperate to the maximum with the Hague tribunal in the desire and hope that the criminals be punished', said Stankovic.

[04] R.S. PREMIER FOR SOLVING BRCKO ISSUE POLITICALLY, BEFORE ARBITRATION

According to the Dayton peace accords from November, 1995, a decision on the status of Brcko should be made in one year's time.

'The arbitration will formally sit, while, ahead of its sitting we should engage many friendly countries to help us towards a just solution of the Brcko question,' said Kasagic.

'If the Muslims could get an 8-15-km wide corridor for Gorazde, why should the passage for the Serbs be cut and the question of Brcko resolved differently,' Kasagic observed.

Kasagic recalled that the narrowest stretch of the Serb territory at Brcko is 6-8 km wide and that, according to most interpretations of the peace accords, the border between the RS and the Muslim-Croat Federation is disputable.

'After all I am confident that the subject of the dispute should anyhow be specified at some higher level and only then should arbitration start,' said Kasagic in conclusion.

[05] KRAJISNIK: MUSLIMS DEALT STRONG BLOW TO FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT

He listed as an example the case of Gen. Djordje Djukic and Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic who were arrested while exercising the freedom of movement.

Asked if there were pressures from Belgrade to extradite Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic to the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Krajisnik answered he considered that Karadzic and Mladic were not guilty of what they were being accused of. He also considers the war crimes tribunal had compromised itself but emphasised he agrees to cooperate with it. Let them bring out evidence against these two and then try them, Krajisnik said. There will be cooperation with the Hague tribunal but only within the scope of the constitution. Under the constitution our people are tried by our courts and on the basis of our laws, Krajisnik said.

[06] HAGUE TRIBUNAL WANTS TO OPEN OFFICE IN REPUBILKA SRPSKA

The tribunal addressed its request to the RS Government which would 'decide on the matter,' Kasagic told newsmen after meeting the tribunal Deputy Prosecutor Graham Blewit. Kasagic said that he and Blewit discussed the necessary mutual cooperation and information in order to help investigation as well as the tribunal's impartial work.

[07] HADZIC: SERBS ARE NOT QUESTIONING CROATIAN BORDERS

'Formally and in accordance with international laws, the peaceful reintegration process in this region has been completed... we are not questioning Croatian borders because they are internationally recognized,' Hadzic told Zagreb weekly Globus. Hadzic said that in this region there no longer exists any threat of war, although the Croatian side continues making certain threats such as a recent speech by Croatian Defense Minister Gojko Susak to guards units.

Hadzic said that Eastern Slavojina, Baranja and Western Srem is a multinational region and added that 'the Croats should conclude for themselves to what extent Croatia is a multinational state.'

Hadzic said that the Serb side would carry out everything contained in the Erdut agreement. He said that, in keeping with this agreement, he would urge that the region of Eastern Slavonija, Baranja and Western Srem remains multinational and that Hungarians and Croats, who do not mind living alongside the Serbs, are allowed to return there.

Hadzic said that this region should be open in relations with Serbia and Croatia and that the people should come to see that they can live together. He said that Croats and Serbs should forgive each other, if they cannot forget.