14.03.2003

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 14/3/2003

Oslobodjenje pages 4-5. mentioned on the front page ‘Bicakcic without job, Obradovic without villa?’, Dnevni Avaz pg. 2, mentioned on the front page ‘Ashdown banned Bicakcic from holding public offices’ – The audit of the BiH Elektroprivreda showed that, in the company’s operations, there were no failures such as the case in the two other Elektropr [...]
13.03.2003

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 13/3/2003

Oslobodjenje front page, pgs. 4-5 ‘Djindjic killed, state of emergency imposed in Serbia’, Dnevni Avaz front page, pgs. 16-18 ‘Premier Zoran Djindjic murdered: State of emergency in Serbia’ – The Serbian President Zoran Djindjic was assassinated in Belgrade on Wednesday while he was entering the building of the Serbian Government. The Governments a [...]
12.03.2003

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 12/3/2003

Oslobodjenje front page – Vitko Vili Jokic indicted for war crimes against civilians (rape) was apprehended and has been in custody since March 7 this year. The 36-old man was arrested together with his companion during a recent attempt robbery in Sarajevo. As a member of the RS Army during the war, Jokic allegedly committed war crime of raping aga [...]
11.03.2003

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 11/3/2003

Dnevni Avaz front-page, pg. 2 ‘Risto Zaric is a player of war criminal Velibor Ostojic’ – The US Administration has, while announcing the launch of the Balkan Evil operation, directly accused the RS Intelligence Service of providing protection to the most wanted war criminal Radovan Karadzic. Although Washington is not directly pointing finger at C [...]
10.03.2003

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 10/3/2003

Dnevni Avaz front page, pg. 2 – The US Treasury announced on Sunday it had undertaken the Balkan Evil operation directed against two persons, one oil company and one bank because they were providing financial support to the war criminal Radovan Karadzic. Glas Srpski, page 4, ‘Balkans Vice’ also reports on the issue.
07.03.2003

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 7/3/2003

Avaz pg. 4 ‘The HDZ has to pay all their electricity bills’ – yesterday’s press conf by HR Paddy Ashdown following the issuing of the audit report on the HB EP. “The conducted revision clearly shows to what extent the HDZ used the HB EP for financing their own parallel activities and for paying privileged HDZ members. If the HDZ wants to keep even [...]
06.03.2003

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 6/3/3003

Avaz pg. 4 ‘HDZ politicians did not even pay their private electricity bills’ – on yesterday’s press conference where PDHR Donald Hays presented results of the audit report conducted by the Special Auditor Team in the HB EP. Hays said the HDZ used the HB EP as ‘their own bank’, and only in the course of 2001 the total loss amounts to 50 million KM. [...]
05.03.2003

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 5/3/2003

Avaz pg. 1 and 2 – Niko Lozancic, Federation President, still has not signed a proposal to appoint Sead Kikic to the post of the FOSS Director. Lozancic said that during a meeting with US Ambassador Clifford Bond he received clear signals that Ambassador was opposing Kikic’s appointment. Lozancic therefore came up with an idea of establishing a mix [...]
04.03.2003

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 4/3/2003

Avaz pg. 1 and 3 – members of the Bulldozer Commission yesterday told local politicians they had 39 days to go through and then implement 50 suggested economic changes in order to start turning BiH into the most attractive state for foreign investors. At yesterday’s press conf, HR Ashdown said the realization of the Bulldzoer Commission’s tasks was [...]
03.03.2003

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 3/3/2003

Avaz pg. 1 and 8 – a statement by RS Deputy Speaker, Sefket Hafizovic, that constitutional amendments adopted last year only existed on the paper in the RS. As the most recent example of his claims Hafizovic mentions the case of the RS Elektroprivreda Steering Board election, which, according to him, is one-national as are boards in over 30 more pu [...]