OHR BiH TV News Summary, 26 August 2000

News Headlines:

• Workers of Bihac-based company Trgovina end their hunger strike
• Former senior official of Serbian Government Ivan Stambolic disappears in Belgrade on Friday
• Yugoslav Army continuing to carry out bizarre activities in Montenegro
• World news
• No reactions to SFOR inspection of central postal building in Sarajevo on Friday
• IOM Mission to BiH will enable BiH citizens, victims of forced labour camps in Nazi Germany, to submit claims for compensation to German Government
• Ruling political parties in BiH joining in their efforts to intimidate returnees – Chairman of Alternative Council of Ministers (AMV) Sejfudin Tokic
• Bosniak nation risks extinction – BOSS President Mirnes Ajanovic speaks at VKBI roundtable in Sarajevo on Saturday
• Two-days conference on equal rights of men and women takes place in Sarajevo
• Trebinje firemen take control of fire outside of that town
• Music Festival ‘Golden Note’ opens in Mostar
• Bono Vox buys minefield in BiH for 2,200 Swiss francs, and money to be used to sweep this minefield
• Bosniak returnees erect new tent settlement in Potocari village, Srebrenica Municipality
• 10,000 Bosniaks attend opening ceremony of first rebuilt mosque in RS in Kozarusa, just outside of Prijedor
• Catholic Church in BiH prepares for Main Eucharistic Congress in Zenica on 2 September
• TV BiH commemorates second anniversary of death of journalist Mladen Paunovic
• Busko Lake in Herzegovina faces ecological catastrophe due to human negligence
• Sarajevo Film Festival concludes with presentation of awards in all categories
• Sarajevo hosts participants of annual bikers’ festival Motorijada
• Sports
• Weather