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Monday, February 5, 1996
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Serbs return home to ghost town
MRKONJIC GRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina — One of Bosnia's biggest ghost towns is coming back to life
The Associated Press
Mrkonjic Grad, with a pre-war population of 28,000, was so devastated by Bosnian Croat forces that NATO and relief agencies suggested the homecoming be gradual while basic services were restored.
Serbs must yield territory near Sarajevo. But as of Sunday, they also regained control of a large, wedge-shaped region around Mrkonjic Grad in northwest Bosnia.
By the thousands, Serb civilians who fled last October when Mrkonjic Grad fell to Bosnian Croats returned yesterday to their ravaged homes.
Some weeping, they were the first wave of the largest Serb homecoming to result from the U.S.-negotiated peace accord.
Those who returned were warned that there could be land mines or
But the road to Mrkonjic Grad from the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka was clogged yesterday with hundreds of cars and buses.
booby-trapped explosives in and around their homes.
Relief workers estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people made the trip.
Among the heartbroken returnees was an Orthodox priest, Slavoljub Tegeltija, who sifted somberly through rubble strewn across the floor of his gutted stone church.
He pointed to singed pages of religious books which he said had been set ablaze after the church was looted.
"Everything it is burned, destroyed," Tegeltija said. "I knew it would be hard coming back, but I didn't think it would be this bad."
His residence, next to the church, also had been gutted, but the black-robed priest said he was determined to stay.
The Croats who captured Mrkonjic Grad started to rebuild the city, restoring utilities and fixing houses. But before leaving last
month, they took what they could with them — and burned what they couldn't carry away.
They left Mrkonjic Grad a ghost town.
There is no electricity, and none is expected for at least two months. The water system is damaged. The hospital, main hotel and telephone center all are stripped of vital equipment.
Some homes have been leveled. Many others are gutted by fire, and even the homes that remain intact have broken windows and missing doors.
"I feel very sad, but we're lucky compared to others," said Slobodan Udovcic, 38, as he and his wife inspected their ransacked apartment.
How long would it take for the town to return to normalcy?
"Ten years at least," Udovici said. At a former military building, representatives of a dozen relief agencies discussed plans to help Mrkonjic Grad and nearby Sipovo recover.
"It's a political thing," he said, "It's hard to get money for Serb areas."
Attila Kulcsar of the American Refugee Committee said the organizations were worried about persuading donors to send aid.
The local chief of the main Serb political party, Luka Culic, said he expected the international community to attach conditions to aid for the Serbs, such as requiring that they cooperate with war crimes investigations.
Investigators open office in Bosnia
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic agreed yesterday to permit international war crimes investigators to open an office, a move that could accelerate the gathering of evidence of ethnic cleansing in the four-year war in Bosnia.
office in Kosovo, a predominantly Albanian province whose autonomy the Serbian leader reversed in 1989.
The gesture of cooperation with the tribunal in The Hague reverses a two-year refusal by the Serbian leader to grant investigators access.
There have been occasional meetings here between tribunal and Serb officials but no direct evidence-gathering permitted.
Christopher said the U.S. intention in opening the office was to bolster political and cultural rights of the people there. Many Kosovo nationalists now want to go beyond autonomy to independence, which would mean further splintering of Yugoslavia.
In another conciliatory move, Milosevic told U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher he would permit the U.S. Information Agency to open an
The stop in Beilgrade completed a three-day trip by Christopher through the Balkans.
He urged leaders in Croatia and Bosnia to free remaining prisoners and to protect the human rights of residents of the three former Yugoslav republics as the Bosnian peace accords are implemented.
However, Milosevic again insisted that war
crimes suspects should be tried where the crimes were committed and not turned in to the international tribunal, which has indicted 52 people and is conducting additional investigations.
Christopher especially wanted Milosevic to compel the Bosnian Serbs to hand over Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serbs' political and military leaders, to The Hague.
Before he left the region to go to the Middle East, Christopher told reporters he expected continued compliance.
Milosevic remains the key figure in the Balkans in U.S. peacemaking efforts. At the same time, his backing of Bosnian Serbs with weapons and other aid ignited their rebellion against the Muslim-led government in Sarajevo and led to the 44-month war.
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