02.10.1999

OHR RTRS News Summary, 2 October 1999

News Headlines

  • Dodik assesses recently concluded visit to US successful
  • World Bank and USAID to continue financing economic reforms in RS – Dodik
  • Dodik announces proposed visit to UK, France, Russia and Israel
  • Dodik opens new road between Hrvacani and Drenik
  • US sharply condemns Milosevic regime repression of citizens in Serbia – US State Department
  • Belgrade citizens hold peaceful protest rally against Milosevic
  • Alliance for Change gets warning from Belgrade police to only organize rallies on square, but citizens cannot block Belgrade streets
  • Unknown persons damage SRS building in Zemun, Belgrade
  • 45 members of Serbian Academy of Arts and Science support opposition protest rallies against Milosevic
  • UN Special Envoy for Human Rights Jiri Dienstbier meets with Yugoslav Envoy for Refugees and Displaced persons Buba Morina
  • Dienstbier meets with Yugoslav Democratic Party President Zoran Djindjic in Belgrade
  • Kosovo Albanians attack train in Kosovo Polje
  • Situation in Kosovo relatively peaceful – KFOR spokesperson
  • Kosovo Albanian terrorists take over railway station in Kosovo Polje
  • Serbs and Kosovo Albanians continue protest in Kosovo Polje, KFOR controlling situation
  • Three injured in Pristina
  • One civilian injured in Podujevo
  • Two killed in car crash near Dragas
  • Serb barricade to remain in Kosovo Polje until Monday when Serb delegation from Kosovo Polje to meet with Kouchner
  • Civilian injured in Lipljan
  • 100 Kosovo Albanians provoke citizens near Culture House in Kosovo Polje
  • Kosovo Albanian doctors protest in Kosovska Mitrovica for equal number of Serb and Kosovo Albanian hospital workers
  • Medicine arrives in Gorazdevci village, population 2,200
  • Clark satisfied with KLA transformation into Kosovo Protection Force
  • Orthodox Bishop Amfilohije condemns Serbian and Yugoslav officials for leaving Serb people in the lurch in Kosovo
  • Silajdzic requests US accelerate return of refugees in BiH
  • Izetbegovic and other Bosniak officials connected with terrorists – Dani
  • SDP BiH President Zlatko Lagumdzija says CD Coalition officials made mistake when they deemed passport issued to terrorist Mehrez Amdouni legal
  • BiH Federation Finance Minister Dragan Covic violates decisions of BiH Federation for oil import
  • Sarajevo Police investigate robbery of SAB Bank in Sarajevo
  • BiH Federation Syndicate requests Petritsch proclaim Law for War Veterans Rights in BiH Federation
  • Former UN worker Charles Kim guilty for $800,000 in damages to UN Mission in BiH
  • World news
  • SRS RS Main Board holds session in Laktasi and invites Sarovic to take over presidential function
  • Action ‘Stop Smuggling’ successful, but creating traffic jams at border crossings
  • Cosmetics and medical equipment fair closes in Banja Luka
  • Sports and weather
  • 15,000 protest in Belgrade against Milosevic regime
  • French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine thinks EU should lift oil sanctions against Yugoslavia for winter period
  • Police violence against protesters in Yugoslavia brutal act against democracy – European Commission
  • Two gypsies raped in Gnjilanje
  • UN Mission to Kosovo and World Health Organization invite Kosovo Albanian doctors to continue their work in Kosovska Mitrovica Hospital
  • Italian Ambassador to Yugoslavia Rikardo Sesa worried about situation in Kosovo
  • Sesa meets with Rugova, Tachi and Kouchner in Pristina
  • Serbian Health Minister meets with Jiri Dienstbier
  • KLA not disarmed – Kosovo Temporary Executive Council member Zoran Andjelkovic
  • CD Coalition condemns BiH HDZ for increasing tensions and provoking hatred in Mostar
  • World news

News Summary

Izetbegovic and other Bosniak officials connected with terrorists – Dani

Sarajevo magazine Dani reported that BiH Presidency Member Alija Izetbegovic and a large number of Bosniak officials were connected with the terrorists responsible for violent criminal actions around the world. In September of 1995, Austrian Anti-terrorist Police entered the building of the humanitarian organization Third World Agency in Vienna, which was established by Sudanese diplomat Al Fatih Hasanein. The police discovered documents proving that $350 million originating from Islamic countries was given to the radical Islamic movement in BiH. Dani quoted Austrian investigation officials as saying that Hasanein has close connections with Izetbegovic and several of his associates. The US considers Izetbegovic’s assistants to be radical Islam followers who are against the US and attempt to influence the BiH Army.

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