Tuzla

The Bosnian court is preparing an international arrest warrant for Novak Djukic, convicted of ordering a deadly Bosnian Serb artillery strike on the town of Tuzla, after he fled to Serbia.

The defence of Novak Djukic, convicted of ordering a deadly Bosnian Serb artillery strike on the town of Tuzla, staged a reconstruction of the attack in a bid to prove his innocence.

A campaign has been launched for ordinary people in Bosnia to exercise their right to get involved in overseeing the conduct of elections, ahead of the next general election due on October 12.

Sabina Ortes, 35, from Livno in west Herzegovina, told Balkan Insight that she had joined the campaign in the hope that the elections will be more transparent as a result.

Bosnia's Security Ministry is seeking the dismissal of Goran Zubac, director of the State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA, at Wednesday's session of the Council of Ministers.

Bosnia's Federation parliament is due to decide at a July 23 session on the future of what has been called the biggest single post-war investment in Bosnia - construction of Bloc 7 of the power plant in Tuzla.

The Bosnia Parliament is expected to vote on Thursday over the opposition-proposed dismissal of Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija and the Defence Minister Zekerijah Osmic. 

The first exhibition, which opened on Thursday at the Bosnian History Museum in Sarajevo, uses documents, photographs and other archive materials to tell the story of the assassination by young Serb Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914, and its impact on Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world.

Novak Djukic, who was convicted of ordering Bosnian Serb artillery to shell the town of Tuzla in 1995, leaving 71 people dead, had his prison sentence reduced from 25 to 20 years.

The state prosecutor’s office confirmed to Balkan Insight on Friday that an indictment had been issued against Zubac, who is charged with failure to react properly and send special police forces to curb the unrest in February, when many state institutions, including the presidency, were set on fire.

Hazards such as unexploded landmines left from the 1992-95 war and hidden weapons that people have stored since the conflict ended have started emerging in Bosnia as a result of the flood disaster.