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)).