05/14/2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 14 May 2000

News Headlines

  • 44 die and 11 injured in bus accident on Zenica-Kakanj road
  • Radisic sends telegram of condolence to Izetbegovic and families of bus crash victims
  • Commemorative service for Vojvodina Executive Council President Bosko Perosevic takes place in Belgrade, the Belgrade regime accuses political opposition and Otpor (Resistance) organization of the murder
  • Vojvodina League of Social Democrats President Nenad Canak injured in car accident
  • Health condition of prisoners in Kosovska Mitrovica, who are on hunger strike, is very bad – team of physicians in Kosovska Mitrovica hospital say
  • Five shells fired at Vrbovac village, near Kosovska Mitrovica
  • Bomb explodes in café in downtown Obilic
  • Yugoslavia sends memorandum on implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 to Chairman of the UN Security Council (China currently) and to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
  • Pec Joint Administration Head Edhem Ceku says it is too early for the Serb return to start
  • RS Army General Talic, indicted by the ICTY for war crimes, requests to defend himself from liberty
  • Croatian Serb associations protest against new Croatian Law on National Minorities
  • World news
  • According to new RS Law on Prosecution and Courts, military courts and prosecution have been abolished and their cases will be transferred over to civilian courts
  • International Conference on the Disabled ‘Independent Life’ ends in Banja Luka
  • Children in several RS towns receive vaccines against poliomyelitis
  • Sports and Weather