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