CROATIA: UNHCR FIELD OFFICER THOMAS VARGAS COMMENTS ON REFUGEES RETURNING TO BOSNIA.

Record ID: 230451

  • Title: CROATIA: UNHCR FIELD OFFICER THOMAS VARGAS COMMENTS ON REFUGEES RETURNING TO BOSNIA.
  • Date: 27th November 1995
  • Summary: KUPLENSKO, CROATIA/ VELIKA KLADUSA, BOSNIA (NOVEMBER 27, 1995) (REUTERS TELEVISION (RTV) (w) - ACCESS ALL) KUPLENSKO, CROATIA 1. LV/ ZOOM VIEWS REFUGEES ON ROAD (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. SLV WOMEN WASHING CLOTHES 0.16 3. SLV PANS 2 MEN ON HORSE DRAWN CART 0.25 4. SLV/SV PEOPLE ON ANOTHER HORSE DRAWN CART/ PASS THROUGH CHECKPOINT (2 SHOTS) 0.44 5. SV BUS WITH REFUGEES LEAVING CAMP (3 SHOTS) 0.57 6. SLV/PAN BUS PASSING THROUGH CHECKPOINT (2 SHOTS) 1.14 VELIKA KLADUSA, BOSNIA 4. ZOOM/SLV REFUGEES, CHILDREN GETTING OFF BUS 1.30 5. MCU UNHCR FIELD OFFICER THOMAS VARGAS SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.47 6. SV /VARIOUS VIEWS OF REFUGEES WITH BELONGINGS (3 SHOTS) 2.03 SEQ.5: TRANSCRIPT; VARGAS: "UP TO NOW WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY REAL REPORTS OF MISTREATMENT OR HARASSMENT, AS YOU SEE HERE IN THE PLACES WHERE THEY ARE DROPPED OFF, THERE ARE FAMILIES HERE TO GREET THEM, THEY ARE HAPPY TO SEE THEM FOR THE MOST PART AND THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY TROUBLE THAT I'VE SEEN." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 12th December 1995 12:00
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  • Location: KUPLENSKO, CROATIA/ VELIKA KLADUSA, BOSNIA
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  • Country: Croatia
  • Reuters ID: LVAAB8G1FROHJDWJNNHL07WKEGJ5
  • Story Text: Around 20,000 Bosnian refugees, unwanted by Croatia and viewed as traitors by their own people, are refusing to return home for fear of reprisals by Bosnians.

    They said on Monday (November 27) they want to spend the winter in tents in croatia.

    The mostly muslim refugees were forced to flee their homes in Velika Kladusa in Northern Bosnia in August after a Bosnian government offensive.

    On Saturday (November 25) the Croatian, Bosnian, and Turkish interior minsters signed an agreement which would establish a police force to oversee the refugees return.

    But the refugees say no government or police force can make them return.

    Field Officer with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Thomas Vargas says he hasn't seen any mistreatment of refugees returning to Bosnia and their families are happy to see them.


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