ROME, July 17 (Reuter) - The EU commissioner responsible for

humanitarian aid said on Monday the international community

should consider evacuating 100,000 Bosnians from U.N. "safe

areas" if nothing more is done to protect them from Serb attack.

Commissioner Emma Bonino of Italy told a news conference after

returning from a tour of refugee camps in the Bosnian town of

Tuzla that 100,000 people, mostly Moslems and some Croats, were

"at risk" in the Safe Areas of Zepa, Gorazde and Bihac.

Bonino is the European Union's Commissioner for Humanitarian

Aid, as well as Consumer Affairs and Fisheries.

"The international community has to make a choice," she said.

"Either we decide that we will protect these areas, which is the

task for which we are there, or I think the international

community has at least to have the courage to go and try to help

them leave the zones before they are killed, raped, etc."

Bonino said the world should start formulating a plan for

refugees in the event more safe areas fall to Bosnian Serbs.

"I wouldn't like to find ourselves with 100,000 people coming

from everywhere without any plan being established before that,"

she said. "If we are to resettle them inside Bosnia or we have to

find other solutions, this has to be carefully studied."

About 23,000 Moslem refugees arrived in government-held

territory around Tuzla after being expelled from the eastern

enclave of Srebrenica in a wave of "ethnic cleansing". Most are

women, children and the elderly.

Refugees have told reporters of young women being taken off by

Serb convoys and of men being slaughtered. U.N. officials are

gathering information from refugees about alleged war crimes.