Some unknown persons have demolished 27 tombs at the cemetery in the Croat village of Sasare in Kosmet, near the Macedonian border, a local, who has been living in Croatia recently, confirmed.

The cross at the cemetery chapel has also been broken, he said. The police in Vitina have been informed of the incident. Some 4,000 Croats lived in the villages of Letnicka zupa until 1990 and 1,500 in Sasare alone.

At the beginning of the war in former Yugoslavia most of them left the villages and some 35 old people have remained in that district and only 5 in the village of Sasare.

They said that Albanians from the neighbouring Macedonian villages have moved into that village and into the homes of displaced Croats.