OHR BiH TV News Summary, 21 December 1999

News Headlines

  • 20-30,000 die in floods in Venezuela
  • Bad weather conditions damage to Elektroprivreda BiH power utilities
  • Report on problems caused by snowfall in Sarajevo
  • Collated report on situation in BiH due to bad weather conditions
  • BiH Federation Ministry of Communications orders inspection of roads in BiH
  • USAID assistance to privatization process stopped due to slow implementation
  • The Hague Tribunal removes seal from Galic’s secret indictment
  • International news
  • Reservists in Vojvodina that once served in Montenegro being mobilized – Canak informs Djukanovic
  • 71-year-old woman killed in Djakovica – KFOR
  • Kosovo Transitional Administrative Council holds session
  • Return of Serb police to Kosovo possible – Serbian Interior Minister Stoiljkovic
  • European Parliament warns Kosovo Albanians of need to respect human rights – Kohaditore
  • Croatian Government schedules Presidential elections for 24 January2000
  • HDZ announces it will nominate candidate for presidential elections after parliamentary elections
  • Delegation of BiH Croats meets with Pavletic
  • Barry and Petritsch concerned with Croatian HDZ nomination of four candidates for Diaspora list who have already dismissed in BiH
  • Klein disappointed with fact that certain cantons do not respect OHR decision to forbid police and judicial bodies from using offensive symbols
  • OSCE surprised with Izetbegovic comments on number of polling stations for Croatian elections in BiH
  • There is no agreement between legal BiH institutions and Croatian Intelligence Service, which acts illegally in BiH
  • Hajric meets with Deputy SFOR Commander General Willcocks to discuss implementation of Sarajevo Declaration
  • Kurtovic and representatives of Norwegian Government sign agreement on financing of project for improving position of women in BiH
  • Keys of houses reconstructed under project of return of minorities in 1999 distributed in Mostar
  • Sarajevo Cantonal Government adopts BiH Federation Ombudsman information on violation of citizens rights in implementation of property laws and secures 1,300,000 KM for resolving such problems
  • Posavina Cantonal Interior Ministry warns of appearance of counterfeit money
  • Bicakcic meets with delegation of BiH Federation Coal Miners Syndicate on Coal Miners’ Day
  • Silajdzic, Kurtovic, Salkic, Zilic, Mahmuljin, Lagumdzija and BiH Association of refugees and DPs address greetings on Coal Miners’ Day
  • Denoting two years since death of Mirza Idrizovic
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • Galic arrives at The Hague – ICTY spokesperson
  • RS Government discusses privatization at Banja Luka session
  • Head of Privatization Agency Adnan Mujagic explains reasons behind US withdrawal from this process
  • Governor of HN Canton Hamo Maslesa calls for help in reconstruction in eastern Herzegovina and reminds of Property Law
  • Croat officials in HN Canton end all relations with Gerhard Sontheim
  • Law college organizes roundtable on Election Law
  • Madjar and Mlaco attend Tuzla Canton session after their recent dismissal
  • RS SNS condemns Galic arrest, as do RS Independent Social Democrats
  • SDS demands RS Government get ICTY permission for RS doctors to examine Galic and inform public of his condition
  • ICTY representatives return RS Army weapons confiscated as evidence in Srebrenica case

News Summary

The Hague Tribunal removes seal from Galic’s secret indictment

TV BiH reporter Sabina Bacvic, reporting from one of the sites held by members of the RS Sarajevo-Romanija Corps during the war, stated that from this site Sarajevo citizens were held under constant terror by bombings, attacks and killings for three and half years. On Tuesday, The Hague Tribunal removed the seal from the secret indictment against Stanislav Galic. General Galic bears individual responsibility because he personally participated in the planning, ordering and execution of the bombing campaign and sniper shootings at Sarajevo citizens. The Hague Tribunal Prosecutor claims that thousands of people, regardless of age and gender, were killed in this campaign. A list of 32 victims of sniper fire, most of them Bosniaks, but also Serbs and Croats, was added as an annex to this indictment. The US State Department evaluated the Galic arrest as a step in the right direction and believes that it is a matter of time before Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic meet the same fate. BiH Presidency Member Zivko Radisic stated that the SFOR operation was an unsuitable act against the RS, its people and its army. The RS Government charged the Justice Minister with reviewing all information on the Galic arrest. JUL President Mira Markovic stated that the Court in The Hague is doing what the Gestapo was doing during WWII and its prisons are a sophisticated replacement for those in prison camps and crematories. (Report accompanied by footage of bombing of Sarajevo, sniper victims, wounded people, Karadzic, Mladic.)

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