CROATIA: ZAGREB: OHIO BOSNIAN PEACE DEAL DEMONSTRATION

Описание: (28 Nov 1995) Serbo-Croat/Nat

Protestors gathered outside the Croatian parliament in the capital Zagreb on Tuesday to demonstrate their opposition to the Dayton peace deal.

President Franjo Tudjman was due to face the protesters as he arrived for the first session of parliament.

Over 1,500 Croat refugees from Bosanska Posavina, outraged by the peace accord in Dayton which gives Bosnian Serbs control of their ancestral land in north Bosnia, voiced their anger in front of Croatia's parliament in Zagreb on Tuesday.

The demonstrations started as the Croatian parliament went into its opening session after the elections held in October.

The atmosphere in front of the parliament was electric with obvious tension between the police units and the demonstrators.

The demonstrators carried banners which read "Shame on you" or "We want to go home" and "You betrayed Bosanska Posavina."

Shouting angry slogans, they demanded an answer from politicians on why the Dayton deal was struck.

SOUNDBITE: Croatian

The Dayton agreement is not correct. Its shameful and unjust. Bosanska Posavina has always been a part of Croat territory, historically and ethnically. Two thousand people from that area alone have been killed, thousands injured, and I think the grab for Posavina should not have been signed. This demonstration is a normal reaction.

SUPER CAPTION: Ante Dzapic, Opposition politician,

Police jeeps blocked long, narrow streets that lead to the parliament building from Zagreb's main square, preventing demonstrators from marching through.

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