Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Former head of Tadić's cabinet passes away

BELGRADE -- Former high ranking official of the Democratic Party (DS) and one of the closest associates of Boris Tadić, Miodrag Miki Rakić, has died.

Rakić, born in 1975 in Žitorađa, passed away after a long and serious illness, in Belgrade's military clinic VMA.

Vučić on working visit to Sarajevo on Tuesday

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić will visit Sarajevo on Tuesday, where he will meet with officials of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Two weeks after Vucic took office as Prime Minister on April 27, he will pay a one-day visit to Sarajevo on Tuesday where he is due to meet Vjekoslav Bevanda, head of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and members of the country's Presidency.

Ahead of the trip, Vucic cited three reasons why he had chosen Bosnia for his first official visit abroad.

A witness said that ex-fighter Marinko Bjelica, on trial for war crimes in Kalinovik, vowed to commit murder at a school where Bosniaks were detained, in order to avenge his two sons.

The Union for Changes was formally established at a ceremony held on April 30 in Banja Luka, the main city in Republika Srpska.

Former Bosnian Serb soldiers Bosiljko and Ostoja Markovic have been indicted by the state prosecution for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in the Kotor Varos area in 1992.

Serbia, BiH journalists collaborate to show human side of conflicts

BELGRADE - Students of the Belgrade and Banjaluka academies of arts performed the play "Veterans of the Salonica Front Speak" at the National Theatre in Belgrade late Saturday.

The play, based on a docudrama by Antonije Djuric and directed by Cisana Murusidze, is part of the official programme marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.

The trial of three former Bosnian Serb fighters was told that at least one of them admitted killing people at a primary school where Bosniaks were detained in Kalinovik in 1992.

A Bosniak woman told the war crimes trial of three former Bosnian Serb fighters that her husband was taken from a primary school in Kalinovik in 1992 and killed.