26.06.2000

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 26 June 2000

News Headlines

  • Dusko Sikirica is one of nine persons indicted for genocide by ICTY
  • ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte welcomes arrest of Dusko Sikirica and calls on other indicted war criminals to voluntarily surrender themselves
  • Milosevic will face The Hague Tribunal sooner or later – Former ICTY Chief Prosecutor Louis Arbor
  • Exhumation of Lisac mass grave, near Gornji Dubovik, Prijedor Municipality, continuing
  • New mass grave discovered in Miljevici, just outside of Sarajevo, in the BiH Federation
  • Two bombs thrown under truck owned by Bosniak returnee to Janja village, Dzevad Softic
  • Recently reconstructed Catholic chapel in Modrani, just outside Derventa, destroyed in bomb attack on Sunday evening
  • Croatian Embassy to BiH condemns attack on Modrani chapel in Derventa
  • BiH Constitutional Court to start working in its new composition (sitting) by January 2001 – BiH Federation President Ejup Ganic
  • BiH Parliament delegation headed by Edhem Bicakcic attends session of Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg
  • World news
  • BiH Federation Government will soon take stand on IMF requests to amend BiH Federation Labor Law – Bicakcic informs BiH Independent Association of Trade Unions President Sulejman Hrle
  • Sarajevo Law Faculty hosts Symposium on 50 years of European Convention on Human Rights
  • Dragoljub Davidovic elected new Mayor of Banja Luka
  • Sarajevo State Hospital proclaimed child-friendly hospital because it supports natural breast-feeding method
  • TV BiH cameraman Zdravko Janica dies
  • SDA delegation visits returnees in Medjedja village, Visegrad Municipality, RS
  • Celic-based fruit processing factory Fruteks close to solution for crisis that stopped production
  • Tuzla painter Jadranka Maric hosts first private art colony in BiH
  • Sports
  • Weather

(This excerpt is taken from the daily report of the IMC-led Joint Media Monitoring Group (JMMG)).