Stolac

"If you see a sword and a shield, that means that person was in the military," Andrea Markovic, who works at the institution that looks after the Radimlja necropolis, told BIRN.

"A bow and arrow meant that the person was an experienced hunter," Markovic added.

The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court announced  on Thursday that it has upheld the first-instance verdict sentencing Mile Pazin to one-and-a-half years in prison for the inhumane treatment of a Bosniak civilian in the Stolac area during wartime in July 1993.

The court said it was "dismissing defendant Mile Pazin's appeal as unfounded".

A former soldier with international peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina has appealed for Croats accused of committing wartime crimes in Stolac and Capljina to be sent from Croatia to Bosnia to face trial.

The main Bosnian Croat party, the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, pulled off an expected victory in the heavily monitored renewed elections in the divided southwestern town of Stolac, Bosnia's Central Election Commission reported.

HDZ candidate Stjepan Boskovic was elected new-old mayor of Stolac and the HDZ also won 49 per cent of the votes for the town council. 

BELGRADE - Following the controversial Republika Srpska referendum, elections in Bosnia and Hercegovina have again raised tensions after allegations of vote-rigging and physical attacks.

Croatian politicians have arrived in Bosnia and Hercegovina in a show of support for Bosnian Croats living there.