STATEMENT FOR PUBLIC ON THE OCCASION OF PRESSURES
EXERTED OVER THE BOSNIAKS IN TESLIC

 

On the occasion of frequent cases of pressures exerted over Bosniaks in the area of Teslic to leave that region, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in BH emphasizes that it presents rude violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms and the violation of the stipulations of the Dayton Accord as well.
It is a fundamental right of a man to live in his home and to use his property without being intimidated or discriminated. All the BH authorities undertook the obligation to enable all refugees and displaced persons to safely return, while the authorities in Teslic, instead of that, tolerate and instigate further harassment and expulsions of citizens just because they do not belong to peoples whose representatives are presently having power in that region.
The institutions of the international community in charge of the implementation of the Peace Accord in BH, are obliged to undertake energetic actions and measures needed to prevent that and to condemn such behaviour.

Sarajevo, 24 February, 1997
No. 21-02/97


Srdjan Dizdarevic
President