Bijeljina

Dozens of truck drivers from Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska lined up vehicles and blocked border crossings and customs posts near the towns of Gradiska, Samac, Bijeljina and Zvornik, in the north and east of the country, in a protest against new licensing regulations.

Bosnian police on Dec. 16 arrested 10 former high ranking Bosnian Serb police and soldiers suspected of killing dozens of Muslim civilians at the start of the country's 1992-1995 war.
      

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Gligor Begovic went on trial for fatal beatings and sexual abuse of prisoners at the Batkovic detention centre in the Bijeljina municipality in 1992.

DNEVNI AVAZ

While hundreds of criminal science experts wait unemployed, Rabija Campara from the Sarajevo Canton Interior Ministry does not want to retire. It is known that she has been influencing the Sarajevo police from the shadow for years. Campara family is controlled by the Izetbegovics.

OSLOBODJENJE

The bill for the May floods in Bosnia in terms of agriculture tops 150 million euro and, coming on top of earlier bad weather, the value of the sector is expected to drop by 30 to 50 per cent this year.

This key branch of the Bosnian economy was devastated by the May floods, farmers and experts say, as many of the the most fruitful lands were underwater this spring.

Serbia sets aside money for flood-hit towns in RS

ŠAMAC -- Serbia earmarked EUR 1 million in aid for Šamac and Doboj that were hit by the severe floods in May, said Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has announced.

He on Saturday toured the two towns in the Serb Republic (RS), the Serb entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Mayor of the northeastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina, Mico Micic, has estimated the cost of flood damage to the town at around 200 million euro.

On Wednesday, he said the devastating floods in May damaged more than 11,000 sites, 7,000 to 8,000 of which were people's homes. Farmland was also destroyed.

Federation entity inspectors on June 5 said work on gathering, destroying or burying the remains of thousands of animals and birds killed in the recent floods was coming to an end.

Around 200 tons of dead cattle and poultry have been removed from the Posavina Canton of northern Bosnia to an incinerator in Indjija, in Serbia, Balkan Insight has learned.

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.

The extensive floods in Bosnia-Herzegovina have destroyed key files of local courts and the Prosecution.