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ZAGREB. Aug 7: Bosnian government troops have crushed resistance by rebel Muabm forces m the north of The Bihac enclave, ending their long revolt against the Sarajevo government UN officials sold today

A UN official in the northwestern territory told Reuters by telephone the Bosnian governments 5th corps troops arrived in the rebel Muslim stronghold of Velika Kladusa north of Bihac town, around 2:30 pm > I 2030 GMT) and fighting in ilie area died down

The fall of Velika Kladusa ended one of the strangest sideshows in the ex

Yugoslavia war*, a Muslim revolt against the mainly Muslim Bosnian government, led by business Tycoon Flkeri AbdK once a rival for Alija

Izetbegovic s job as presi dent

Meanwhile fighting re sumed in C roatia today trap ping thousands of fleeing

civilians between frontlines, alter the Croatians accused the Serbs of breaking a UN-brokered accord for the withdrawal of Serb soldiers

Croatia accused the Serb separatists of attempting to take hundreds of heavy weapons into neighbouring Bosnia, in contravention of the accord agreed just hours earlier

Russia reacted Immedi atety to the reports of renewed fighting in the Krajina raffing for sanctions against Croatia.

Earlier Russian President Boris Yeltsin, launching a personal initiative to halt the

conflict, said today he had invited the Serbian and Croatian presidents to meet In Moscow

Interfax news agency quoted Yeltsin as telling reporters at the Kremlin that talks were already underway far Croatia's Franjo Tudjman and Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic to meet him in the Russian capital

Croatian Defence Minister Gokko Susak told Croatian radio: The Serbs In the area Isouth of Zagreb and on the way to Bosnia) have refused to surrender.

The Serbs attempted to trick us. taking heavy weapons into Bosnia, he said

The United Nations had earlier announced the accord. negotiated early today, for the surrender and with drawal of the rebel Serb soldiers. Under the agreement, the Serbs were to hand in their heavy weapons to sites monitored by the United Nations.

A UN official* said the Croatian defence ministry informed the United Nations at midday that the deal negotiated early today for the Serbs to surrender, hand over their heavy weapons and Join the flow of civilian refugees out of the area "is no longer valid."