28.08.2000

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 28 August 2000

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News Headlines:

  • Dominik Ilijasevic, suspected of war crimes against Bosniak civilians in Stupni Do, arrested in Kiseljak by BiH Federation police
  • Bob Dole inaugurates Missing Persons Institute in Sarajevo
  • Great Britain donates only 10,000 pounds for identification of bodies in BiH
  • Commemoration for massacre at Sarajevo market Markale, where 43 persons were killed by mortar shell, held in Sarajevo on Monday, its fifth anniversary
  • The Hague Tribunal continues trial of five Serbs indicted for war crimes against civilians in Omarska concentration camp
  • World Congress of Religious Leaders opens in UN building in New York, Bosnian Islamic leader in attendance
  • Interim management at Komercijalna Banka Tuzla undertakes steps to collect outstanding debts
  • BiH Central Bank opens branch office in Brcko District
  • Rector of Mostar University Marko Tadic resigns from this post
  • Resignation of Mostar University Council and myself was compromise solution – TV BiH live interview with resigned Rector Marko Tadic
  • World news
  • US Government to donate another $5.1 million for minority refugee returns in BiH through USAID
  • Stability Pact donates 200,000 KM for reconstruction of houses in Zenica and Jajce municipalities
  • 10,000 KM collected for refugees in action ‘One Mark-One Brick’ organised by BiH Refugee Association
  • RS Government will respect RS National Assembly’s conclusions regarding pensions – Dodik promises at meeting with RS Pensioners Association delegation
  • Ten firemen injured while fighting fire on Mount Vlasic
  • State of emergency proclaimed in Maglaj Municipality due to numerous fires
  • More than 50 fires registered in Livno Municipality in past 7 days
  • BiH society is in collapse – Lagumdzija in meeting with Ambassadors Frowick and Hand
  • LDS urges citizens and companies in BiH Federation not to pay unemployment benefit tax because only 5 (five) new workers have been employed in BiH Federation this year
  • Ambassador Hans Jorg Kretschmer meets with BiH Republican party President Stjepan Kljuic to discuss political situation in BiH
  • One person killed and two seriously injured in traffic accident in Bosanska Krupa
  • SFOR carries out manoeuvres at ‘Brave Barbara’ training ground outside of Glamoc
  • US Ambassador Thomas Miller’s wife Bonnie visits certified accountants school for refugees in Sarajevo
  • Sports
  • Weather