 |
Opposition Party says Omarska Police
Terrorized Visiting Scandinavian Youths
BELGRADE, May 25 (Reuters) - An opposition party in the separatist Bosnian Serb
republic accused police on Saturday of
detaining a visiting Scandinavian youth delegation.
The Social Liberal Party (SLS) delivered a protest to the
Bosnian Serb Police Ministry about the treatment of four Swedish
and Finnish nationals and their IFOR-accredited tranlator.
The group was on the way out of Bosnia after visiting the
SLS in Banja Luka last Tuesday. The party said police from the northwestern town of Omarska
detained the visitors for at least six hours, but police there
denied ever coming in contact with the group.
The SLS alleged the police searched the group—two girls
and two boys—and destroyed rolls of film.
"They were just a group of youngsters—kids really," an
SLS spokesman told Reuterss. "They were terrified out of their
wits."
The spokesman said the film only had "pictures taken as
memories."
The SLS called on the Bosnian Serb Police Minister to
publicly appologise to both Sweden and Finland for the incident,
which it said did not help "draw a positive picture of the
Republika Srpska."
Based in the northern city of Banja Luka, the SLS is a rival
to the hardline nationalist Bosnian Serb leadership of Radovan
Karadzic, headquartered in the village of Pale near Sarajevo.
|
Berserkistan is a world news service of Michael Linder Productions, Inc.
©1995-1996, All Rights Reserved