29.04.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 29 April 2000

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News Headlines

  • Gligoric says BiH Council of Ministers will start working in ten days and will insist that the second Serb member of the Council be pro-Dayton oriented
  • Bishop Nikolaj to serve Easter mass in Bogorodica (Holy Virgin) Church in Sarajevo
  • Bihac Bishop to serve Easter mass in Sveti Sava Church in Drvar
  • Bishop Vasilije to serve Easter mass in Bijeljina
  • Ganic sends Easter greetings
  • Racan sends Easter greetings
  • Two bombs thrown at Orthodox church in Istanbul
  • Report on Easter custom of egg coloring
  • SNSD Banja Luka Board organizes Easter lunch for children of Rada Vranjesevic Orphanage
  • Baptism in Tvrdas Monastery in Trebinje
  • SDA Main Board votes confidence in Bicakcic and establishes new SDA Presidency
  • Kosovo and Metohija Serb National Council condemns demolition of Sveta Petka Paraskeva church in village of Grncare
  • Kosovo and Metohija Serb National Council and IC representatives form Committee for Return of Expelled Kosovo Serbs
  • UN Security Council delegation meets with Serb representatives in Gracanica Monastery, Kosovo
  • Three Kosovo Albanians attack and beat Cedomir Trajkovic in Lipljane, KFOR arrests and then releases them
  • 34 Albanians on hunger strike, demand release of Kosovo Albanians from prisons in Serbia
  • Rudolph Scharping satisfied with refugee returns to RS
  • SFOR uncovers wreckage of US F-16 jet shot down by RS Army on 2 June
  • 54 bodies of exhumed Bosniaks buried in Jelac, Srbinje (Foca)
  • HN Canton Interior Ministry issues warrant for arrest of nine persons indicted of assaulting Bosniak returnees and IC representatives
  • BiH Federation Confederation of Independent Syndicates calls on members to protest against BiH Federation stoppage of collective work agreement implementation
  • Livno Canton Governor condemns false pamphlets that have recently appeared
  • Former Croatian defense minister says there was acquiescence in regard to killing of Serbs and torching of Serbs homes after 1995 Oluja military operation
  • Serb prisoners in Lepoglava prison end their hunger strike
  • World news
  • HDZ Party Congress starts in Zagreb, new party President to be elected
  • DEMI 2000 fair in Banja Luka concludes
  • Police detective Radenko Radovic killed in Srbinje
  • Second International Conference on Jasenovac Concentration Camp to be held in Banja Luka from 8 to 10 May
  • Sports and weather
  • Orthodox Serbian Patriarch Pavle, Bishop of Raska Artemije and Bishop of Herzegovina Atanasije to serve Easter liturgies in Kosovo churches – Serb National Council of Kosovo
  • KFOR returns large number of Kosovo Albanians to Kosovska Mitrovica, as local Serbs protest this move
  • Serb killed near Pasjane village, Kosovo
  • UN Security Council delegation visiting sites that ICTY believes are Kosovo Albanian mass graves near Djakovica, Kosovo
  • 3,000 Bosniak refugees from Janje village protest in Selublje village, near Tuzla, due to slowness of return process
  • World News
  • Prijedor Municipality delegation lays flowers on graves of fallen soldiers on the occasion of Prijedor Day
  • Sports and Weather