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PRIJEDOR
Simo Drijaca Kille
Prijedor, - Prijedor mayor Milomir Sta; kic held a news conference following the events Thursday in Prijedor where SFOR tro® ops killed one person and arrested three. | He said in that action Simo Drljaca, Prije; dor former police chief was brutally killed. Prijedor hospital director Milan Mica Kova* cevic was arrested, as well as Drljaca’s 17year-old son and brother-in-law.
The entire action was carried out under direct SFOR command with a warrant of the Hague tribunal to arrest in Prijedor two persons from the secret list of war crimes suspecis. Stakic said that, according to a SFOR source, Milan Kovacevic was on his way to the
BOSNIAN SERB ARREST | PALE IN PRIJEDOR
Operation Ordered by NATO
Banja Luka, - A spokesman for the multinational peace force in Bosnia-Herzegovina said here on Thursday that operations to arrest Bosnian Serb war crime suspects in Prijedor earlier in the day had been ordered by NATO Command Europe.
Prijedor Hospital Director Milan Kovacevic was arrested at around 9:30 a.m. according to the spokesman for the NATOled multinational peace Stabilization “orce (SFOR) Division Southwest, British LieulenantColonel Mike Wright.
Wright said that in another operation in the
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Hague, and the other two were in one of the SFOR bases, for interrogation.
He added that Milan Kovacevie was suffering from heart disease and asked from SFOR commander the immediate release of all the arrested.
Explanation has been sought for the brutal killing of Simo Drljaca.
According to Stakic, the claim that Simo Drljaca was killed while resisting SFOR troops seems completely naive, as at that time Drijaca was 1n his swim-wear.
There are also eye-witnesses to the event, which took place Thursday morning on the
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their identity is being protected for obvious reasons.
It is claimed that in the first assault Simo Drljaca was wounded, and after that killed, on the bank of the lake where he was fishing.
Stakic said that it is still not known where Drljaca’s body was, but that it was most probably taken to a SFOR base.
The operation was backed up by five heli copters and several personnel carriers.
Following the events in Prijedor a national § defense session has been held, and bodies of & power in that town are in permanent session. &
Residents of Prijedor are embittered, con- § founded and following developments with §
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Momcilo Krajisnik
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Pale, - Republika Srpska member of the Bosnia - Herzegovina Presidency Momcilo Krajisnik has condemned the SFOR action Thursday in Prijedor and described it as a crime by the international force.
A statement issued by Krajisnik’s cabinet says that persons responsible for the crime must be identified immediately so that their commanding officers can punish them and prevent a repetition of such actions.
This is the only way that the consequences of such irresponsible adventures can be brought under control and that peace in the region and consequently the Dayton agreement can be saved, Krajisnik said.
It is dangerous and unethical to take adventage of the internal political crisis in Republika Srpska and undertake actions jeopardizing everything that has been achieved so far, he said.
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War Crimes in Celebici Camp
concern.
Krajisnik Condemns SFOR Actions
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Krajisnik appealed to all states guaranteeing the Dayton agreement, above all] the United States, to curb the ambitious and irresponsible behaviour of their field commanders and to give up once and for all the idea of arresting people in their own country in order to have them put on trial elsewhere. Republika Srpska is ready to put on trial before the international public any of its citizens for whom evidence of crimes can be presented, Krajisnik said. He appealed to Republika Srpska citizen to refrain from any relation in which innocent young foreign soldiers or officials could be hurt, and to maintain law and order.
Krajisnik said that peace concluded after a civil war must be followed by full amnesty, and that each side must as a rule try its own suspects of violation of the war law.
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SERBIAN GOVERNMENT
Belgrade, - The Serbian government reviewed on Thursday the ongoing realization of this year’s programme of harvesting and buying wheat.
A statement issued by the Serbian Information
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Ministry quoted the government as saying in a session chaired by Premier Mirko Marjanovic that the harvest was being successfully carried out now that all the necessary preconditions had been created.
Harvest is being successfully carried out
The harvest has been completed on an area of 55,000 hectares, with an average yield amounting to 4,5 tons per hectare. Judging by initial results, this year’s yield of wheat
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could amount to over 3 million tons.
The government said farmers Were satisfied with the price of wheat of 1.10 dinars per kilo as well as with ways of payment. The government also reviewed the situation in
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The yovernment said it had established that the Novi Pazar municipality had refused to cover expenses by. local primary and secondary school although it was bound by the
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Prijedor area in the (Bo-
snian Serb) Republika alg former Prijedor olice chief Simo Drljaca ad been shot dead while apparently resisting arrest by SFOR.
One SFOR soldier had been slightly wounded in the operation, Wright said, explaining that the idea had been to take the suspects in alive.
He said that both Koy acevic and Drljaca had been indicted of war crimes committed against Muslims and Croats in the Prijedor area in the period between April 30 and Dec. 31, 1993.
News agencies. however, quoted a statement by the Hague-based war crimes court for former Yugoslavia as saying that Drljaca had not been on the court's list of war crime suspects.
Wright said that SFOR had acted in line with its mandate and political guidelines, that these were not new orders, that the mandate had not changed and that SFOR had acted on NATO Command Evrope’s orders which had nothing to do with Division Southwest.
He added that the operation had been a NATO operation and not an SFOR Operation, specifying that this had been an operation of NATO Command Europe and that nobody else had been involved.
He averred that the fact that the murder and the arrest had come at the time of a crisis the Republika Srpska was no more than a coincidence.
Speaking about the
Belgrade, - The association of camp inmates since 199] has submitted to the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal the name of yet another person held prisoner in the Celebici camp in 1992 when Bosnian Moslem leader Alija Izetbegovic. visited the camp and inspected the camp hit 19. roi :
In a letter to the tribunal, prompted by the resumption of the trial on Wednesday of persons responsible for crimes committed in the camp, the association’s expert team said there was yet another witness of Izetbegovic’s visit to the camp in addition to those whose names were on the tribunal's list of witnesses.
The team also said Izetbegovic’s visit had been recorded on a video tape, giving the name of the person that had that tape.
The trial of Moslems Hazim Delic, Esad Ladzo Zenga and Zejnel Delalic and Croat Zdravko Mucic Pavo, charged with war crimes in the Celebici camp, opened on March 10.
The tribunal has invariably refused to raise the issue of Izetbegovic’s responsibility for Moslem troops offensive against Serb villages in the area of Konjic, about 40 km southwest of Sarajevo, between April and December 1992 as well as for the setting up of the Celebici camp.
Witnesses that are willing to testify before the tribunal could play a key role in determining the responsibility of top Moslem officials for crimes against Serbs in the Konjic area in 1992 when 165 Serb civilians were killed, while more than 1,000 were taken to the Celebici and Musala prisoner camps and nearly all of the 7.700 Serbs expelled from the arca.
The tribunal's refusal to bring indictments against head of the Konjic war presidency Rusmir Hadzihuesinovic and Konjic mayor and police chief Jasmin Guska, who organized military transports, as well as against Izetbeyovic is nothing but its attempt to withhold the truth about the ethnic cleansing of Serbs practiced by Moslems.
The team also submitted to the tribunal written accounts by families of 13 of the 18 Serbs killed in the Celebici camp, citing the number of families that had ma-
naved to obtain the remains of their family members and explaining how they had managed to do this.
A number of families stated that Moslems had refused to hand over the bodies of the killed Serbs and that they did not even know where they had been buried. Other families gave the names of witnes-"* © ses who had seen that the bodies had been thrown on dumps or near the Serb mass grave at Bradina.
Only few families managed to bury their members that had been killed, while at least in one case Mucic attended the funeral. The team called on the tribunal’s prosecutor Eric Ostberg to call as witness head of the Konjic committee for the exchange of bodies of the killed persons, Jasna Dzumhur, who took part in the identification of the bodies and had to give information about the killed persons to their families on behalf of local authorities. Just before new witnesses began to give their testimonies on Wednesday, the counsel for the defense, made up of 9 lawyers, several of them being from the United States, attacked the association using as its weapon a statement by Petar Fjodorov, the association's outgoing president, quoted by the Belgrade daily Gradjanin on June 18.
Fjodorov had criticized the association’s delegation for having attended the opening of the trial and for having provided the prosecutor with documentation that is of utmost importance.
The counsel for the defense, which has 200 associates in Sarajevo, requested that the tribunal launch an investigation into the association which it called an obscure organization, evidently objecting to witnesses of crimes against Serbs, provided by the association.
The association includes more than 1,200 persons who were held prisoner in camps throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.
The team said it would sue Fjodorov for libel, being of the view that his behaviour had greatly harmed the case, the only in which Serbs are victims of the 19 opened by the tribunal.
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| Belgrade, - Fifth session of the _ the Jomt diplomatic-expert commission for establishing of and descrip| tion of the state border between the © Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and © the Republic of Macedonia was
The session was completely devoted to proposals of the Yugoslav = and Macedonian sides for establis-
in Vranje.
of Macedonia.
hing and description of the border, exchanged on February 7 this year
Negotiations should result in concluding of the interstate agreement about stretching of the state border between the Federal. Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republič"
The Yugoslav delegation in the
ZASTAVA OF KRAGUJEVAC
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Kragujevac, - The Yugoslav car producer Zastava is returning to the Polish market.
The company has contracted the export of 1,000 Yugo vehicles in parts, which will be assembled through the Davismotor company in a factory in Lodz.
The Polish partner is interested in buying larpe quantities of vehicles,
ut the realization depends on Zastava’s abilities. Zastava will produce 20,000 cars this year and plans to export half of this quantity. Most of its exports, or 7,680 Zastava 128 cars, will go to Egypt. The factory has already delivered 2,880 of these vehicles.
Zastava exports cars in parts to Cairo, where they are assembled, The contract was concluded with the factory’s old pariner, the company E]
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negotiations was headed by Rado-} mir Bogdanovic, ambassador in the Federal Ministry of foreign affairs and president of the Yugoslav part of the Joint diplomatic-expert commission, and the Macedonian dele-
‘nyation’ by Branislav Stojanovski, assistant foreign minister of the Republic of Macedonia.
Yugos in parts will be assembled in Poland
Nasco, which has received more than 75,000 Zastava cars since the beginning of cooperation. Zastava 128 Nova is an improved vehicle with more than 150 new parts and a 1.300-ccm engine.
Other buyers of Last va cars this year inclutt the Czech Repubt (800), Ecuador (500) Greece, Macedonia, SI” venia. The factory $ ‘i ports should total million dollars this ye"
SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA SPOKESMAN IVICA DACIC
Socialists for Revision of Constitution
sident of Serbia, Dacic replied the deci-
possible consequences of the operation, he said that his commander was fully alive to the situation and wanted the multinational
Minister Elected
Belgrade, - The Assembly of Serbia elected Thursday General Direc-
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force’s Division Southwest to continue doing its normal duties.
Asked where the irs ners were being held, he replied he had no infor-
Wright made his statement outside the Bosna Hotel in Banja Luka, in the hall of which news conferences are regularly held.
Hotel staff said that many people had phoned the hotel demanding that SFOR did not give its news conference in the Bosna Hotel.
Ivica Dacic
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Belgrade, - The Socialist Party of Serbia intends to push ahead its initiative for a revision of the Yugoslav Constitution relating to the election of the president of Yugoslavia, party spokesman Ivica Dacic said on Thursday.
Dacic told a news conference that the initiative should ‘follow the usual procedure’ and not be taken up for debate at an extraordinary session.
Dacic said he hoped the constitutional revisions would ‘evolve to that aim an toward great democratic progress.”
He said he expected the Montenegrin socialists would abide by a decision of the main board of Montenegro’s ruling
arty and uphold the candidacy of Serian President Slobodan Milosevic for president of Yugoslavia.
Asked of the SPS’s candidate for pre-
sion had not been made yet, but would be before the deadline.
Asked about events in Republika Srpska, Dacic said that as far as war crime suspects were concerned, they were citizens of Republika Srpska ‘who have nothing to do with Yugoslavia’.
A stable Yugoslavia is a thorn in the side to many factors in the world, said Dacic, adding that the object of those factors was not for the opposition to take power, but to carry out their aims more easily through them.
He said Republika Srpska was grossly treated in the distribution of financial aid, compared to the Muslim-Croat federation. : ;
He said that different criteria were
enforced for the two entities.
Governor.
state bodies.
tor of the Koling company Borislav Milacic, 44, new finance mihister. Milacic, an economist, was elected by a vote od 129-13 in place o | Dusan Vlatkovic who has been
Proposing Milacic for the pos Premier Mirko Marjanovic set out ¢ that Milacic had worked as a financi- § al expert in both the economy and
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