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[02/23/1993 - 11/04/1994]: 24194018-20060474F-001-016-2023

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This Clinton Presidential Library release collects NSC cables from February 1993 to November 1994 that were filed under the heading of flying saucers or UFOs. Five cables are withheld on national security grounds. A US Embassy Zagreb update from February 1993 reports Croatian press coverage of a Russian Ministry of Defense "UFO dossier." Two FBIS translations follow. One covers UFO-oriented sects in Peru and a sighting at Huaraz. The other covers UFOs that Interior Ministry personnel saw in Las Tunas Province, Cuba, on 29 October 1994.

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1. ETHNIC CLEANSING CONTINUES IN SECTOR EAST, ACCORDING TO UNPROFOR. HOME GUARDS IN TRAINING UNDER BOBETKO'S WATCHFUL EYE. MUSLIM RAMADAN MESSAGE CALLS FOR PEACE AND REFUGEE AID. CROATIAN ARMY BATTLEFIELD REPORT. THE BURA STOPS SHIPS AND SHORE TRAFFIC DEAD. REFUGEE RE-REGISTRATION NOT READY TO GO YET. ANTI-CRIME EFFORT WILL NEED TOUGHNESS AND NEW LAWS ACCORDING TO GOVERNMENT MINISTER. CROATIAN PRESS CARRIES RUSSIAN UFO REPORT. END SUMMARY.

## EXPULSION OF CROATS FROM SECTOR EAST CONTINUES

2. UNPROFOR CIVILIAN COORDINATOR IN SECTOR EAST MRS. NEGGA ADVISED CROATIAN AUTHORITIES THAT ANOTHER GROUP OF 49 PERSONS FROM BARANJA WILL SOON BE ESCORTED BY UNPROFOR TO FREE CROATIAN TERRITORY. CROATIAN GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONER FOR BARANJA MARKO KVESIC ANNOUNCED THAT, IN SPITE OF THE PRESENCE OF UNPROFOR IN SECTOR EAST, CROATS, HUNGARIANS, AND EVEN SERBS OUT OF STEP WITH LOCAL SERBIAN EXTREMISTS IN POWER CONTINUE TO BE EXPELLED FROM THE OCCUPIED BARANQA. SOME 45 PERSONS WERE ETHNICALLY CLEANSED FROM BARANJA IN A TEN DAY PERIOD BETWEEN FEBRUARY 5-15, ACCORDING TO CROATIAN SOURCES.

## HOME GUARDS START BASIC TRAINING

3. COMMANDER OF THE CROATIAN ARMY GENERAL BQBETKOVISITED THE ISTRIAN TOWN OF BUJE TO INSPECT THE FIRST GROUP OF HOME GUARDS FROM THE BUJE DISTRICT NOW UNDERGOING RESERVE TRAINING. BOBETKO STRESSED THAT THE HOME GUARDS, AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE CROATIAN DEFENSE FORCE, MUST BE WELL-EDUCATED AND DISCIPLINED.

## OMERBASIC'S RAMADAN MESSAGE TO MUSLIMS

4. PRESIDENT OF THE ISLAMIC UNION FOR CROATIA AND SLOVENIA SEVKO OMERBASIC, IN A MESSAGE TO BELIEVERS ON THE EVE OF RAMADAN, ASKED MUSLIMS TO QEFRAIN FROM ALL ACTIONS AGAINST PEACE AND GOOD WILL. HE APPEALED FOR HELP FOR MUSLIM REFUGEES FROM B-H WHO ARE BEING SHELTERED IN CROATIA AND SLOVENIA AND EXPRESSED CONCERN FOR THOSE WHO STAYED IN B-H. ACCORDING TO OMERBASIC, NO EFFORTS SHOULD BE SPARED TO MAKE THESE PEOPLE FEEL THAT THEY ARE NOT WANTED AND HOPELESS. HE ASKED THAT "SURPLUS" FOOD AVAILABLE DURING THIS MONTH OF FASTING BE SENT TO THOSE WHO ARE STARVING. UNCLAS SECTION 02 OF 03 ZAGREB 000605 USVIENNA FOR USDEL CSCE E.O.: 12356: N/A TAGS: MOPS, PHUM, PREL, ASEC, HR, BK SUBJECT: TFSROL: ZAGREB UPDATE: FEB 23, 1993

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 17 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.