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From: The Serbian Unity Congress Server at http://www.suc.org

APRIL 22 1997 DAY

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BEOGRAD - The head of the RS Army General Staff, general Pero Colic, stated that the name "B-H Army" is unallowable and it represents a flagrant violation of the Dayton agreement and at the same time it indicates to all the more obvious Muslim aspirations to have the whole of B-H for themselves. In an interview for the "Vecernje Novosti", Colic said that the Serbs have, in the recent contacts, informed the international representatives of the issue.

BANJALUKA - Members of the RS Commission for POW Exchange Experts Team identified Dragan Janjic (born 1955 in Banajluka) in Omarska, near Prijedor. He was a member of the Fifth Kozara Brigade, and was killed in a battle in Suva Mejda, near Novi Grad.

MODRICA - The main hearing began on April 21 in front of Grand Jury of the Main Court in Modrica, in a process against Ferid (Semsa) Halilovic, from Odzak, charged for war crimes against civilians in Croat and Muslim prisoner camps in Odzak, Novi Grad, Slavonski Brod and Brod. Indictment charges Halilovic of war crimes against civilians and military prisoners, rape and severe physical injuries to which Rade Tomanovic, Ljubo Cvijanovic and Mirkop Pejic succumbed, while tens of other Serb prisoners remained permanently handicapped.

BANJALUKA - IPTF spokesman in Banjaluka, Alaun Roberts warned at the continuing praxis of setting Serb houses in the Federation of B-H to fire. "In the village of Vrtoce, near Drvar, unidentified perpetrators threw an explosive device into a house of Jela Pecanac", stated Roberts at a press conference.

BEOGRAD - Without indictments and trials, 16 Serbs are being held in Croatian prisoners, which is an indicator of Croat noncompliance to all previously reached agreements on POW release, says the president of the Krajina Documentation-Information Centre "Veritas, Savo Strbac, in a statement for "Vecernje Novosti".

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