31.03.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 31 March 2000

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News Headlines

  • Dodik bodyguards beat up Borac Nektar fans after Igokea-Borac basketball game on 30 March
  • RS Interior Ministry issues press release on events from basketball game
  • Basketball game should not have been motive for clash in Borik Sports Hall
  • Igokea players were indecent – Borac Nektar
  • Dodik allowed his bodyguards to use force against youths – SPRS
  • SDS bitter over brutal attack of Dodik bodyguards on Borac fans
  • Improper demonstration of force and arrogance of Dodik bodyguards – PDP
  • Dodik responsible for incident in Borik – SNS Banja Luka
  • Private police of SNSD beat up youths – Serb Party President Lazarevic
  • Thanks to brutality of Dodik’s bodyguards, clear sporting victory turned into defeat – Democratic Patriotic Party Youth
  • Two of Dodik’s bodyguards suspended – SNSD official Mitrovic
  • Dodik apologizes to Banja Luka citizens for incident in Borik
  • Almost 1,400,000 RS citizens registered for privatization – RS Government
  • BiH granted 800,000 DM at Donors’ Conference in Brussels – RS Finance Minister Kondic
  • Brcko Assembly holds constitutive session
  • Dodik visits Kotor Varos
  • Sarovic meets with Prnjavor authorities
  • RS Army fulfilled all obligations from military annexes of Dayton Agreement – RS Defense Ministry Assistant Jelicic
  • RS Association of Refugees and DPs Ostanak holds protest rally entitled ‘Stop Inhumane Evictions’ in Banja Luka
  • 150 Grahovo families await return, but have no funds to realize it
  • Six Serb families return to Gracanica from Doboj
  • Sarajevo Canton Interior Ministry confiscates 5kg of marijuana in Vraca
  • Armed robbery on Bosansko Grahovo-Livno route
  • US Ambassador Miller speculations of irregular privatization of Holiday Inn Hotel unfounded – Bicakcic
  • Yugoslav Army arrests several KFOR soldiers at Rozaje check point and releases them
  • No secret that there are Albanian concentration camps for Serbs in Kosovo – Serb National Council spokesperson Kabasic
  • House of Najdan Leskic burned in Orahovac
  • Bomb explodes in Pristina
  • KFOR denies that there are Albanian concentration camps for Serbs in Kosovo
  • US warns Albanian extremists in southern Serbia that they would face KFOR actions if they do not suspend their operations – Foley
  • US to send more troops to Kosovo and Macedonia
  • KFOR not intending to take action against Albanian extremists in southern Serbia – NATO General Freitag
  • 125,000 Albanian refugees to return to Kosovo by end of year – Swiss Office in Pristina
  • UN extends deadline for registration of vehicles in Kosovo another two months
  • Rally ‘Stop Terror’ held in Belgrade
  • World news
  • Frowick informs of reform of RT RS while visiting RT RS workers
  • Petritsch delivers diplomas to BBC school of journalism students in Sarajevo
  • Slovenian and RS Economy Ministries to sign agreement on cooperation in agriculture
  • Swedish SGS Adriatic delivers ISO 9002 certificate to Banja Luka Jelsingrad Steel factory
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • Bosniak dies in explosion in Rankovici, near Novi Travnik – UN IPTF
  • Protection of all nations in Kosovo priority of NATO – Robertson
  • French lieutenant killed by French professional soldier in southern Kosovska Mitrovica – KFOR
  • HRT Director Galic to place his mandate at disposal of Croatian Parliament
  • Czech choir Societas Cantica gives concert in Banja Luka
  • Serb Party invites citizens not to vote for their former coalition partners, Serb Patriotic Party and Democratic Party
  • Serb Patriotic Party insists on protection of those evicted – Party Vice-president Crnadak
  • Banja Luka fulfilled all conditions to become modern European city – Dodik
  • BiH Communist Union holds rally in Banja Luka
  • SNS Bijeljina holds session on SRS member Blagojevic’s physical attack on SNS member Krsmanovic at latest town assembly session
  • Situation in RS result of internal political disputes – PDP President Ivanic
  • SPO RS shocked by campaign ads of some parties – Party President Perkovic
  • SDS originated from people and survived as such – Cavic at rally in Sokolac
  • SDS holds rallies in Pale, Milici, Brod and Zvornik
  • Elections chance for changes – RS Democratic Party