SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS, April 26, 1996

Srpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) Directory

From: Mirjana Petrovic <almirja@cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu>

SARAJEVO - The vicepresident of the Republika Srpska (RS) Nikola Koljevic, this evening talked with the French ambassador to the Former B-H Yves Goden about the implementation of the civilian part of the Paris agreement and about the situation in the RS in light of the elections. "We dealt with incidents which took place when the Muslims, without prior announcing, were trying to reach the RS, which we understand as incursions" stated the RS vicepresident. The French ambassador to the RS and the MuslimCroat Federation stated that "it is very sensitive issue which needs a lot of pragmatism".

SARAJEVO - Zoran Tot, kidnapped on February 1st on the "Serb Soldiers Bridge" in Grbavica, was released from the Muslim Cen tral Prison in Sarajevo with the help of two members of Bildt's team, Lewis Sel and Peggy Hicks, whom Momcilo Krajisnik, presi dent of the RS National Assembly received this evening.

BELGRADE - Prof. Dr Zoran Stankovic, pathologist from the MilitaryMedicine Academy in Belgrade, stated that trails of fighting are not visible anywhere from Banjaluka to Mrkonjic Grad because the people were escaping and were killed at doorsteps of their houses. After several days spent in Mrkonjic Grad with his team of experts who exhumed a mass grave of Serb civilians, Dr Stankovic stated in an interview granted the paper "Javnost" that 181 bodies were discovered, among which, bodes of 11 women.

BRCKO - The Muslims from Tuzla visited graves in the commu nity of Meraja in Brcko, with the escort of the Serb police. The Muslim visit to this city was the motive of peaceful demonstra tions of several hundreds of the Serbs in Brcko.

PRISTINA - The Albanian secessionist leadership is still using the accidental murder of Armend Daci for media manipula tions, demanding that all lights in Kosmet be turned off for five minutes this evening at 21:00 hrs. The separatists obviously have no intention to stop with provocations, after they killed three civilians in Decani on April 22 at 20;00 hrs, and two Serb po licemen on the RozajePec road, near Kosovska Mitrovica.

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