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The commemoration ceremony on Tuesday. Photo: N1.

Tributes were paid in Ahmici in Bosnia's Vitez municipality on Tuesday to the victims of the massacre on April 16, 1993, when 116 civilians including elderly people and children were killed by Croatian Defence Council fighters.

Dodik is a former president of the RS - the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) - the other being the Muslim-Croat Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (FBiH).

Four former Bosniak fighters were charged with involvement in abusing and torturing Bosnian Serb prisoners of war in the Gorazde and Visegrad areas in 1992 and 1993.

Milorad Dodik cancelled the talks on Tuesday after his demand that the flag of Bosnia's Serb-dominated Republika Srpska be placed next to the Bosnian state flag in the meeting room was refused by the other two members of the country's tripartite presidency.

Dodik then demanded that the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina be removed if there was to be no Republika Srpska flag in the room.

The Bosniak member of the country's tripartite presidency, Sefik Dzaferovic, and the strongest Bosniak political force, the Party of Democratic Action, called on the Defence Ministry to investigate on Thursday over the incorrect labelling of pork as beef in Bosnian Army rations.

They will represent Bosniaks (Muslims), Croats, and Serbs, respectively, in this tripartite body.

Bosnia's politial future looked more uncertain on Monday after the hard-line Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik looked set to win the Serbian seat on Bosnia's three-member state presidency.

Polls closed at 7pm on Sunday in an election in which 3,352,933 voters were eligible to vote at 5,794 polling stations.

Bosnian state prosecutor Miroslav Janjic said he received death threats from a witness who testified in the war crimes case against the former Bosniak commander in Srebrenica, Naser Oric.

Turkey on Sunday marked the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016 with receptions across the Balkans, including photography and art shows as well as religious ceremonies, marches and several sporting events.

Balkan leaders were high on the foreign guest list as Turkey's strongman for 16 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was sworn in as President once again at the country's parliament in Ankara on Monday.