CROATIA/ YUGOSLAVIA: SERB REFUGEES OF FORMER KRAJINA ENCLAVE ARRIVE IN SERBIA.

Record ID: 275052

  • Title: CROATIA/ YUGOSLAVIA: SERB REFUGEES OF FORMER KRAJINA ENCLAVE ARRIVE IN SERBIA.
  • Date: 16th September 1995
  • Summary: LIPOVAC BORDER CROSSING BETWEEN CROATIA AND YUGOSLAVIA AND SREMSKA MITROVICA 100KM NORTH-WEST OF BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (SEPTEMBER 16, 1995) (REUTERS TELEVISION (A) - ACCESS ALL) LIPOVAC BORDER (NIGHT) 1. GV LIPOVAC BORDER CROSSING 0.05 2. SLV CROATIAN OFFICIALS CHECKING DETAILS OF KRAJINA SERB REFUGEES 0.07 3.
  • Embargoed: 1st October 1995 13:00
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  • Location: LIPOVAC BORDER CROSSING BETWEEN CROATIA AND YUGOSLAVIA AND SREMSKA MITROVICA 100KM NORTH-WEST OF BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVAA5MYEVQAUY0JHYCYYFSMU3OHL
  • Story Text: Several hundred Serb refugees from the former Krajina enclave reached Serbia late on Saturday (September 16) after spending more than a month in a United Nations camp in Knin.

    The refugees, mostly elderly and sick people as well as mothers with small children, arrived in Sremska Mitrovica, some 100 kilometres northwest of Belgrade, in a convoy of buses and ambulances under a United Nations (U.N.) escort. They had only a handful of belongings and appeared exhausted and traumatised.

    Croatia, whose forces captured Krajina from rebel Serbs in August, had refused to allow the refugees to leave until those suspected of war crimes had been handed over.

    "We have received information that 34 of around 740 from the United Nations compound will stay in the compound in Knin and later will be released to the Croatian authorities", UNHCR worker Ilija Todorovic told Reuters Television. These are believed to be the 34 suspected of war crimes, whom the Croatians insisted be handed over before the other refugees could leave.

    The Krajina Serbs had taken refuge in the U.N. compound in Knin, the self-declared Croatian Serb capital, after the Croatian army launched its offensive to win control of Krajina.


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