Bratunac

Jovan Novakovic told the Belgrade Higher Court on Friday that when he evacuated locals from the Bosniak village of Suha near Bratunac in spring 1992, he did not know they were about to be deported.

Police on Thursday morning arrested former soldier Milan Trisic, who is accused of committing a crime against humanity against Bosniaks in the Bratunac municipality in 1992, at Sarajevo airport after he was deported from the US.

According to media reports, there had instead been "a malfunction on the (electric power) transmission lines" in the area.

Earlier on Monday, the locals reported to the police that "at around 12.30 pm, a helicopter crashed in the area of ​​Bratunac in inaccessible terrain."

Brnabic spoke after meeting President and Prime Minister of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina (RS) Milorad Dodik and Zeljka Cvijanovic.

Ljubovija and Bratunac cannot survive without bridges, just as the Balkans cannot do it, Serbia's PM and President-elect Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday.

The trial of Naser Oric and Sabahudin Muhic starts on Tuesday before the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

They are charged with killing Serb prisoners in 1992 in the area of ​​Srebrenica and Bratunac, eastern Bosnia.

The 23rd anniversary of the murder of Serb civilians in Kravica near Bratunac in eastern Bosnia was marked on Tuesday.

A church service for all 158 victims from this town and the nearby villages was also served today, while candles were lit at a memorial site in Kravice.

Serbia and Bosnia signed four important protocols on Wednesday at their first joint government session in Sarajevo.

The first concerns research into missing persons from the conflict of the 1990s, protection of the historic Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic bridge in Visegrad, eastern Bosia, and stronger cooperation in the telecommunication and environmental sectors.

The Bosnian state prosecution said that two previously unknown mass graves containing the bodies of victims of the 1992-95 war have been discovered in the towns of Bratunac and Bihac.

BANJALUKA - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic and Republika Srpska's (RS) Construction Minister Srebrenka Golic announced in Banjaluka on Thursday that the representatives of Serbian and RS construction sectors will meet in Belgrade in November to discuss the possibility of joint bidding in the local and international markets.