Bosniaks

Passers-by who ventured out to enjoy the evening breeze in the centre of Prijedor in northwest Bosnia this week were surprised by the appetizing aromas spreading from a table laden with cooked rice, fried mushrooms, vegetables and soya burgers.

The food was part of an action that a local youth non-governmental organization called "Kvart" ("Neighbourhood") organized on Tuesday night.

Another in a series of ethnic-related incidents has increased tension in the Prijedor region of northwest Bosnia, in the Republika Srpska, only two days after local authorities and members of religious communities met to calm the situation.

The wife of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic told the Hague Tribunal that he was with her in Belgrade in the days when troops allegedly under his control massacred Bosniaks from Srebrenica.

Bakir Izetbegovic has said that Serbian PM Aleksanda Vucic's initiative to establish a joint day of remembrance is "premature and incomplete."

Milorad Dodik's "destructive and confrontational policy is the Federation's key problem, that is transferred to Bosnia and the region," says Bakir Izetbegovic.

This Bosniak (Muslim) member of the country's tripartite presidency was referring to the Muslim-Croat Federation (FBiH) entity of Bosnia. Dodik is the president of the Serb entity, the RS.

The Facebook group "Bosniaks" has published a map of Bosnia-Herzegovina and "guidelines and a detailed plan on the use of military forces to abolish the RS."

Bakir Izetbegovic has rejected the claims that he and people close to him were behind the attack that targeted Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic.

A day after the commemoration in Potocari held for the Bosniak victims, Serbs were on Sunday remembering their victims in nearby Bratunac.

69 Serb civilians and soldiers were killed by Muslim forces led by Naser Oric on July 12, 1992. The murders coincided with the Feast of St. Peter and Paul (Serbian: Petrovdan) a major holiday celebrated by Orthodox Serbs.

A TV documentary programme made by BIRN journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina explores how investigators collected evidence to prove that the massacres of Srebrenica’s Bosniaks 20 years ago were genocide.

Representatives of the Bosniak community in Kosovo's parliament want more higher educational programmes in their language to "meet the needs of the minority community" and stop Bosniaks students from having to go abroad.