Doboj

DOBOJ - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday Serbia would always be there to guarantee peace and respect of the Dayton Agreement as well as the existence and survival of Republika Srpska.

DOBOJ - Serbia will continue to support Republika Srpska as much as it can, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said at the ceremonial opening of a health centre in Stanari, near Doboj, Republika Srpska, on Monday.

Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA on Monday confirmed the seizure of 124 kilograms of cocaine that was found in banana boxes in a warehouse in the town of Siroki Brijeg.

"I can confirm the seizure, the investigators have done their part of the job, but due to the ongoing investigation, I can't give more details," Jelena Miovcic, SIPA's spokeswoman, told BIRN.

Fadila Huduti last saw her husband Bajrus at a police station in the town of Doboj in northern Bosnia on May 5, 1992, after the married couple were arrested at their house by Serb soldiers.

"By a cruel twist of fate, it happened on our 20th wedding anniversary. We got married on May 5, 1972," Huduti said.

Activists from the Centre for Non-Violent Action said they installed temporary commemorative plaques this month in the Zenica, Doboj and Zepce areas of Bosnia as part of an ongoing campaign to push local authorities to create permanent memorials to war victims.

Bosnia's Election Commission, the CIK, has filed a lawsuit against Bosnian Serb strongman and Serbian member of the state presidency Milorad Dodik, accusing him of inciting national hatred. The crime carries a statutory sentence of three months to ten years in prison if the accused is found guilty.

Courts in the towns of Doboj and Sokolac have rejected requests to ban 16 associations whose titles contain the words 'Chetnik Movement' or 'Ravna Gora Movement', while three more courts in Bosnia's Serb-majority Republika Srpska entity are still considering requests to ban the associations, BIRN has learned.

A prosecution witness told the trial of former Serbian State Security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Serbian Red Berets paramilitaries killed Bosniaks and Croat captives in the town of Doboj in 1992.

Belgrade’s Humanitarian Law Centre filed criminal complaints against three former fighters from the Serbian Red Berets unit, accusing them of committing war crimes in the Bosnian town of Doboj in 1992.

While ordinary people and investors are emigrating because of Bosnia's deepening political crisis and poor business environment, local political parties seem to be flourishing, thanks to steady and ample financial support from the state budget and from their membership fees.