YUGOSLAVIA/CROATIA: BOSNIA SERBS VOTE ON SECOND DAY OF FINAL REFERENDUM/MOSLEM REFUGEES HELD UP BETWEEN SERB AND CROAT FRONTLINES
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328640
YUGOSLAVIA/CROATIA: BOSNIA SERBS VOTE ON SECOND DAY OF FINAL REFERENDUM/MOSLEM REFUGEES HELD UP BETWEEN SERB AND CROAT FRONTLINES
- Title: YUGOSLAVIA/CROATIA: BOSNIA SERBS VOTE ON SECOND DAY OF FINAL REFERENDUM/MOSLEM REFUGEES HELD UP BETWEEN SERB AND CROAT FRONTLINES
- Date: 28th August 1994
- Summary: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA/TURANJ, CROATIA (AUGUST 28, 1994) BELGRADE 1. GV BELGARDE'S SLAVIJA SQUARE PAN KRAJINA SERBS ORGANISATION BUILDING 0.08 2. PEOLE IN POLLING STATION 0.11 3. SV/ CU OFFICIALS CHECKING IDENTIFICATION CARDS AND LISTING NAMES (4 SHOTS) 0.34 4. SLV PEOPLE CASTING BALLOTS AND VOTING (3 SHOTS) 0.44 TURANJ 5. LV CROATIAN SPECIAL POLICE FORCE PUTTING UP UMBRELLA 0.49 6. SCU UNPROFOR CHECKPOINT SIGN 0.53 7. GV SPECIAL POLICE FORCE BY ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER 0.58 8. LV REGUGEES QUEUEING FOR WATER AT REFUGEE CAMP (3 SHOTS) 1.06 9. SLV WOMAN COOKING 1.10 10. SLV ANOTHER WOMAN CARRYING BRANCHES 1.17 11. GV REFUGEES AT WATER DOING WASHING (3 SHOTS) 1.30 12. LV MAN DRYING TROUSERS OVER FIRE (2 SHOTS) 1.38 13. GV CROATIAN POLICEMEN LOOKING ACROSS RIVER 1.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 12th September 1994 13:00
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- Location: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA AND TURANJ, CROATIA
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- Country: Yugoslavia
- Reuters ID: LVAEK77JV7X9TFGT7K7O7XUZBTOQ
- Story Text: Bosnian Serbs in Belgrade voted on the second and final day of a referendum on Sunday (August 28) in a poll expected to result in a firm rejection of a peace plan. Meanwhile the situation remained tense for 10,000 Moslem refugees holed up between Serb and Croat frontlines.
The non-governmental civil organisation of Serbs who originate from Croatia and Bosnia turned its Belgrade offices into polling stations for refugees from the Bosnian Serb Republic.
The Belgrade polls were held in defiance of an earlier announcement by Serbian authorities forbidding the vote on Serb soil.
Referendum officials said turnout has been high. First results were expected within 48 hours of polls closing at 1900 (1700 gmt) on Sunday.
Bosnian Serbs, a third of the pre-war population and now controlling 70 percent of the country, say the proposed peace plan dividing Bosnia roughly in half between Serbs and a Moslem and Croat alliance forces them to give up too much territory.
In Croatia, refugees from the Bosnian enclave of Bihac moved from a camp in the Serb-held town of Krajina into the heavily-mined United Nations-patrolled zone close to the village of Turanj. The refugees had fled Bihac after breakaway Bosnian Moslem leader Fikret Abdic's rebellion there collapsed under an assault by Bosnian government forces last weekend.
The refugees have started making preparations for a longer stay near Turanj occupying houses along the road in the demarcation zone and setting up makeshift shelters.
Croatia has refused entry to the majority of the refugees and Croatian troops are blocking the Turanj checkpoint with armoured personnel carriers and special police forces wearing flak jackets and armed with rifles.
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