Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Activists Try Cooking to Calm Tense Bosnian Town

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.

Bosniaks Commemorate Omarska Prison Camp Victims

Bosniaks gathered on Thursday at the iron ore mining complex in Omarska to mark the anniversary of the day in August 1992 when the notorious detention camp was closed down.

Around 6,000 Bosniak and Croat men and women were detained at Omarska and some 700 of them were killed in the three months during which the camp operated at the beginning of the Bosnian war.

"Dodik wants to do with pen what couldn't be done with guns"

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.

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