Serbs destroy
Muslim homes
Bosnian Serb authorities blew up 96 in the Prijedor area after the UN provided a list of their refugee owners, who had applied to visit them, UN officials said.
"The Serbs simply matched the 96 names to 96 abandoned homes and demolished them," said Kris Janowski, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Bosnia. "Our effort to bring people back together again was used to cement [wartime] ethnic cleansing by destroying the property of people who might want to return." Sarajevo - Reuter
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