Geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The event marking 22 years since the closure of the notorious Omarska camp near Prijedor was cancelled when the owners of the site, ArcelorMittal, did not allow Bosnian soldiers in.

More floods have hit the Western Balkans in what is shaping up to be worst year in memory in terms of appalling weather.

One man was reported to have drowned in Banja Koviljaca in Serbia in the basement of his home on Tuesday, the Serbian daily newspaper Blic reported.

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.

Former soldiers Mitar Vlasenko, Rade Vlasenko and Drago Koncar were charged with crimes against humanity for carrying out expulsions and killings in Kozarac near Prijedor in 1992.

Srebrenica relatives pleased with Dutch verdict, but not satisfied

BELGRADE – Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will be in Republika Srpska on Saturday, where he will visit the municipalities of Doboj and Samac, the Serbian government’s media relations office said in a release Friday.

Bosniaks marched through the Macedonian capital on Monday from Skopje’s old town, near the Murat Pasha mosque, to the Stone Bridge, one of the city’s biggest landmarks, where participants called for peace and tolerance and said that Srebrenica should never be forgotten.

Thousands of people gathered on July 11 in Srebrenica for the 19th anniversary of the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim males by ethnic Serbs forces, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II.

Amid heavy police presence, and despite threats, Serbian anti-war activists, led by the NGO Women in Black, honoured Bosniak victims of the 1995 slaughter in Srebrenica.

BRATUNAC – A central manifestation to commemorate 22 years since a crime against Serbs in the Middle Drina valley in Republika Srpska (RS), the Serb entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), where Muslim forces killed 3,267 Serb civilians and soldiers during a four-year war, was held in the RS town of Bratunac Saturday.