Alija Izetbegović

Four former Bosnian Serb soldiers denied that they were responsible for the murders of six Bosniak civilians including two children as well as other crimes in eastern Bosnia in 1992.

Leaders of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, the main Bosniak party in Bosnia, on December 18 named Denis Zvizdic as the next president of the Council of Ministers, in effect, Bosnia's next Prime Minister.

Izetbegovic on Thursday demanded an apology from Republka Srpska President Dodik for his comments about Alija Izetbegovic, the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the incumbent Bosniak leader's late father. 

Based on around 95 per cent of votes counted, the three members of Bosnia's State Presidency will Bakir Izetbegovic - for the Bosniaks, Dragan Covic - for the Croats, and Mladen Ivanic - for the Serbs.

Izetbegovic, the existing Bosniak member, standing for the Bosniak Party of Democratic Action, SDA, won about 228,000 votes, some 40,000 more than his main rival, Fahrudin Radoncic.

Bosnian Central Electoral Commission announced on Monday that according to preliminary results from the previous day's polls, the Bosniak member of the tripartite presidency will be Bakir Izetbegovic of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, while the Croat member will be Dragan Covic of the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ.

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Izetbegovic, the leader of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, had a clear lead over his nearest rival for the Bosniak presidency seat on Monday morning after 76 per cent of ballots were counted.

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Polls opened at 7am on Sunday for voters to cast ballots in the general and presidential elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sulejman Tihic, president of Bosnia's largest Bosniak party, the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, died on September 25 in Sarajevo after a years-long fight with cancer.

Former prisoners said that Serbs held by Bosniak forces in detention centres in Hadzici near Sarajevo during wartime were beaten up and starved.

Several dozen children from Vrbanjci near Banja Luka in Republika Srpska did not start school on September 1 due to their parents' boycott of the school system which does not allow Bosniaks to have their own curriculum at the local school uses the Serbian-language teaching programme.