While in prison in northern Bosnia in 1996, some Serbian prisoners have described being forced to eat paper and soap.

The workforce largely provided by Russian and Serbian prisoners of war (POW).

The Croatian forces also captured some Serbian prisoners, and the two sides agreed to several prisoner exchanges; most prisoners were freed by the end of 1992.

The next day, the same seven Danes and six Serbian prisoners had been forced to walk "in front of the attacking Croatian forces for two hours."

"They were exchanged," he said, "against Serbian prisoners."

"We have four Serbian prisoners from the battle, but we don't know what to call them," said Col. Gerard Dubois, a spokesman.

Many Serbian prisoners were taken, and these were transported to Nicomedia in Asia Minor to serve as military colonists.

Today there was an exchange of 200 Muslim and Serbian prisoners of war, on a bridge 10 miles east of here.

In most cases, she said, Serbian prisoners protected the Albanians against attack, though she said some were sick and needed insulin.

He told the men that he had not been able to work out a deal with their Government to trade them for Serbian prisoners.