SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS, March 25, 1996

Srpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) Directory

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

SARAJEVO - By the Republika Srpska (RS) presidential deci sion, the Muslim photoreporter, Hidajet Delic, was acquitted by Court and released.

BRCKO - The Muslims rejected to release 19 Serb prisoners held in the Tuzla Prison, stated the president of the RS Commis sion for POW Exchange, Makso Simeunovic. On Wednesday, March 27, the Muslim Commission should, in Priboj near Teocak, deliver bodies of two Serb soldiers, killed on the Majevica front.

MOSTAR - At the line of separation between the RS and the MuslimCroat Federation, 10 Serbs, imprisoned in Mostar, will be released today, reports AFP.

BRCKO - The Bridge on the Sava River between Brcko and Zupanja will be opened on Thursday, March 28; this was agreed to at a meeting between Brcko municipal representatives and IFOR.

BRCKO - After Serb police check points near Brcko are re moved, the control at five approaches to this city is carried out neither by international police nor IFOR, states the chief of the Brcko Centre of Security Services, Zarko Cosic. According to him, the Serb police can control the flow of traffic, but not longer than 30 minutes at one place, which is being fully respected.

ZVORNIK - Since the signature of the Dayton agreement, over 30,000 Serbs, mostly from Serb Sarajevo, have arrived in Birca.

SREBRENICA - The Srebrenica mayor, Mico Pavlovic, assessed that a humanitarian catastrophe threatens the region because of a large inflow of refugees.

PARIS - The French "Figaro" considers that "the most serious problem is the release of 214 POWs held by all three parties in Bosnia", and warns that the peace process in Bosnia is in a deep crisis.

HAMBURG - An analyst of the German magazine "Novo" assesses that, stories of American strategists and unconscious journalists about alleged mass graves created a clime of overall hysteria, putting the open season on war criminals at the focus of atten tion. "What lacks in speculations on mass graves is an irrefuta ble evidence to their existence", concludes "Novo".

BERLIN - The German weekly paper "Focus" concludes that Sa rajevo did not become a multiethnic, but a Muslim city, for there live 84 per cent of the Muslims, 10 per cent of Serbs and only 6 per cent of Croats. "Spiegel" writes that "Bosnia is all the more taking the characteristics of Islam" giving the example of the Muslim prime minister, Hasan Muratovic, paying his first visit abroad not to Western Europe but to Iran.

VIENNA - The Austrian foreign minister, Wolfgang Schiessel, assessed that there are great chances to delay the renewal of war in the Former B-H. In an interview for the Austrian daily paper "Presse", Schiessel pointed out that the factual division of the Former B-H draws a great danger of renewed enmities.

LONDON - Since it is very unlikely that America will succeed to provide a political solution for Bosnia in the next nine months, NATO will be forced to keep its military in the Former B- H even after the their Dayton mandate expires. The expert of the London Institute for Strategic Sciences, who desired to remain anonymous, explained that the U.S.A. have already so "inertly stretched themselves in the world" that Washington risks a rapid collapse of its external policy in whole.

BRUSSELS - The Belgium paper "La Libre Belgik" issues a news that "the indictment was brought for the first time against three Muslims and a Croat, who committed crimes against the Serbs in the Celebic prisoner camp, near Konjic". The paper concludes that the indictments against the Muslims and a Croat are much more softened that indictments against the Serbs.

RIJEKA - All masks of the Croatian policy fell down in the Krajina, where horrible atrocities have been done against the Serbian people, stated the president of the Croatian Board of the Helsinki Committee, Ivan Zvonimir Cicak. In an interview granted "Novi List" he pointed out that the Croatian legislature is presently dealing with criminal proceedings against 2,000 Serbs, who reportedly committed war crimes, while no one of the Croats have been charged.

NOVI SAD - The president of the Party of Serb Unity (SSJ), Zeljko RaznjatovicArkan, started that he does not recognise the Hague Tribunal as a legal institution, "for the Serbs are the only to try them there". "Our position is clear - there can be no Serb crimes in this war - we only defended ourselves", he stressed.

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