LIFE IMPRISONMENT TO KUSLJIC
On 15 December, BHP reported the AFP information from Munich reading that
44-year old Serb Djuradj Kusljic was sentenced to life imprisonment on the
grounds of crimes committed against humanity and six murders. Kusljic was
accused of having taken part in "planned destruction" of Bosniaks in Bosnia
and Herzegovina in 1992 as police commander in the place of Vrbnica, 40
kilometers from Banja Luka (Republic of Srpska - western Bosnia). He was
arrested in Germany where he had lived before the war.

THREE YEARS TO OMANOVIC
On 29 December, the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo found Bosniak Suad Omanovic
guilty as accessory to the murder of Vasilj Lavriv and Milena Draskovic,
perpetrated in October 1993 in the area of Kazani, on the mountain of
Trebevic (a mountain above Sarajevo). Omanovic was sentenced to three years
on the grounds of statement given during the investigation according to
which he had hit Lavriv in the head with a shovel and thrown the body of
murdered Draskovic into the abyss of Kazani. On the basis of the Amnesty
Law, the proceedings initiated against Omanovic on the count of failure to
report the crime and the perpetrators in the case of murder of another two
Serbs were suspended. Crimes committed by Bosniaks against Serbs and Croats
in the area of Kazani have not been completely investigated, and therefore
not tried before the court as yet.

BILL OF INDICTMENT EXTENDED
On 23 December, SENSE reported from the Hague that bills of indictment for
Serbs Radoslav Brdjanin and General Momir Talic, who had been previously
accused of crimes against humanity, has been amended. The extended
indictment bill for two leading persons from so-called Crisis Staff for
Bosnian Krajina comprises new 11 counts, including two counts for genocide
of Bosniaks and Croats.

LANDZO'S DEMAND REFUSED
On 13 December, Dnevni avaz reported that the Appeals Chamber of the
International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague dismissed a motion of
Bosniak Esad Landzo to provide additional evidence in favour of his appeal.
Landzo, who is sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment, claims that the
sentence was passed by the Trial Chamber the Chairman of which "slept
through the major part of the proceedings".

GALIC AND VUKOVIC ARRESTED
SFOR soldiers arrested on 20 December in Banja Luka (Republic of Srpska -
western Bosnia) Stanislav Galic, retired General, and three days later, in
Foca (Republic of Srpska - eastern Bosnia) Zoran Vukovic, employee at the
Ministry of Internal Affairs. None of the SFOR soldiers was injured during
the action.
General Galic Stanislav was a commander of Sarajevo-Romanija Corps in the
period from 6 September 1992 to 10 August 1994 and was thus responsible for
a 44 month brutal siege of Sarajevo. The bill of indictment charges Galic
with implementing during the whole period "a strategy which used shelling
and sniping to kill, maim, wound and terrorise the civil population". "The
targets of the artillery and snipers of Romania Corps were bread or water
queues, funerals, markets, trams or just people simply walking with
children or friends". Thousands of civilians of all ages, among whom a
great number of children, were either killed or wounded.
The June 1996 Hague bill of indictment against "Gagovic and others" alleges
that during the war Zoran Vukovic was a deputy commander of the military
police and leader of paramilitary units in Foca. He took part in the
attacks against Foca and surrounding villages and is charged, together with
other seven paramilitary and police leaders for the detainment and brutal
rape of Bosniak women in 1992. In one of the detention camps, 60 Bosniak
women were raped and physically tortured and this ruined their mental and
physical health. It is possible that Vukovic will be accused of some other
crimes as well.
At their first appearance before the International War Crimes Tribunal for
former Yugoslavia in the Hague, on 29 December, Galic and Vukovic pleaded
not guilty for crimes they were indicted for.

MURDER SUSPECTS
On 27 December in Sarajevo, an investigation was initiated against the
Bosniaks Osman Hodzic from Sarajevo and Meho Ibrisevic from Olovo, arrested
in case of murder of a six-member Serb family which had been killed in July
1992 in the Sarajevan settlement of Velesici. Radosava Ristovic, mother,
62, and her sons Pero, 42, and Obren, 37, daughter Bosa, 31, and cousins
Danilo, 14, and Mila, 42, were murdered while having lunch. Mila's husband
Dusko and a girl Stojanka Mastilo, who had been gravely injured, survived.

ANOTHER 150 ON WANTED LIST
On 22 December, the independent news agency SENSE reported the statement of
Chief Prosecutor of the International war Crimes Tribunal, Madame Carla del
Ponte, that the arrest of leading persons accused for war crimes would be
top priority in 2000. At the first press conference, 100 days after taking
over the duty of Chief Prosecutor, Del Ponte said that her Prosecution was
currently conducting 19 investigations for crimes committed in Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) and that
another 17 investigations should commence in 2000. The Chief Prosecutor
emphasised that the investigations would involve 150 suspects, "almost all
are at a high level of authority and responsibility".

ICG ABOUT CRIMINALS
In the latest report the International Crisis group (ICG), the excerpts
from which were given by Sarajevo press media on 16 December, it was
concluded that there was no co-operation on the part of local authorities
in BH in the arrests of war criminals, except for Bosniak side which had
shown readiness to surrender the accused. 13 war criminal surrendered
voluntarily, 6 were arrested outside Bosnia and Herzegovina, while SFOR
arrested 13 accused persons (not counting Galic and Vukovic - editor's
note). British soldiers arrested 9 suspects, Americans 3 and French one.
The New York Times raised doubts about French soldiers deliberately killing
Dragan Gagovic. The French justified his killing by the fact that Gagovic
directed his car straight against them and they were forced to shoot.

CANTON OF TORTURE
On 23 December, the President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in
BH Srdjan Dizdarevic sent a letter to BH Presidency member and President of
the Party of Democratic Action Alija Iztbegovic on the occasion of the
unlawful arrest of Senad Husidic from Velika Kladusa, Una-Sana Canton (BH
Federation - northwestern Bosnia). In the letter, Dizdarevic said that the
Helsinki Committee was informed of the unlawful arrest of Husidic, who had
first been detained, without any arrest warrant, in the police station in
Velika Kladusa, and then taken to Bihac (central part of the Canton) where
he had been submitted to interrogation during whole night. Husidic was
released from the detainment upon the intervention of the IPTF, but
following the release he did not however receive any written document
concerning either his detainment or opening of an investigation process.
According to Dizdarevic, Husidic was visiting some members of his family in
Velika Kladusa, where he had been born. During the war, he was not a member
of any military formation, and in 1994 he left Velika Kladusa and stayed at
first in the Republic of Croatia and then in Canada, where he is living
now. This was his first entry to Bosnia and Herzegovina after his leaving
as refugee.
The President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights points out that
this detention is only one in a series of such acts, which sometimes
involve even physical harassment, the victims of which are the citizens of
Velika Kladusa, Cazin and some other places in Una-Sana Canton (Bosniaks
are in majority in that Canton, and the Party of Democratic Action is in
power there). According to the estimates of the Helsinki Committee, between
3 to 4 thousand citizens fell victim to such unlawful behaviour for the
past few years. Dizdarevic also warned of obvious discrimination of people
on the basis of their political orientation and emphasised that the victims
of detention and battering were those who were not the members the Party of
Democratic Action, i.e. all those accused of being "autonomists" (during
the war, a political and military conflict broke out among Bosniaks when
Fikret Abdic declared autonomy of a para-state region of Western Bosnia,
entered into a military clash with the legal BH Army and collaborated with
the aggressors on BH). Discrimination in the Canton is manifest in job
dismissals, unlawful employment, and discrimination of children on grounds
of political orientation of their parents. Such political discrimination,
lawlessness and deliberate destruction of economy resulted in 50,000 people
leaving the region and 70,000 Bosniaks from that canton receiving
citizenship papers from the neighbouring Republic of Croatia.
In his letter to Izetbegovic, Dizdarevic stresses: "We see the detention
and investigation of Senad Husidic as yet another attempt to intimidate the
citizens of this region, the aim of which is to prevent refugees from
coming back and to undermine the determination of those who decided to link
their destiny with the destiny of Velika Kladusa, Cazin and other places of
the region".
Alija Izetbegovic did not respond to the appeal of the President of the
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in BH Srdjan Dizdarevic, whereby the
latter invited Izetbegovic to do all in his power, as member of the state
body of authority and as President of the Party of Democratic Action, to
make Una-Sana Canton start respecting the laws and protecting the rights of
every citizen, and creating prospects for normal and dignified life for all
those living live in this part of BH or intending to return and live there.
Instead of a response from Izetbegovic, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of
Una-Sana Canton reacted by making a public release explaining in an utterly
unconvincing manner why Husidic had been arrested and then set free, and
insinuating that Dizdarevic wanted "by presenting untruths, to fabricate
for public a wrong, utterly misshapen image of our work". The Ministry
claims that Husidic was arrested on the basis of an APB from 1996, issued
on grounds of reasonable suspicion that he had committed murder together
with six other persons, and that after the detainment and interrogation the
APB was withdrawn in the part concerning Husidic, who was thereafter
released in accordance with the stipulations of the Agreement on Refugees
and Displaced Persons from the Dayton Accords.
In his response to the reaction of the Ministry of Una-Sana Canton,
President of the Helsinki Committee Srdjan Dizdarevic indicated that the
Ministry did not deny either the facts or the assessment of the situation
presented in the letter to Alija Izetbegovic, underlining again that "Senad
Husdic was detained and kept in prison unlawfully". Dizdarevic pointed out
that both the European Convention on Protection of Human Rights and
Freedoms, for the respect of which Bosnia and Herzegovina had undertaken
the obligation, and the Law on Criminal Proceedings of the BH Federation,
were violated. The unlawful actions of the Cantonal Ministry can further be
substantiated by the fact that on 23 December two policemen came again to
the place of abode of Husidic with intention to detain him. At the end,
Dizdarevic concluded that the police of Una-Sana Canton had once again
confirmed that it was an instrument in the hands ruling Party of Democratic
Action and that it was consistently conducting a policy of intimidation of
those citizens in the region who were not the followers of that party.

POLITICAL TERROR
A monitor of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in BH reported of a
repeated physical assault on the citizen Osmo Erdic by the military
policeman of the 5th Corps of the BH Federation Army Jusuf Durakovic in a
village Mrcelji, municipality of Velika Kladusa (BH Federation -
northwestern Bosnia) on 26 December. Durakovic, together with his father
Kasim, had already assaulted Erdic on 3 January last year, inflicting light
bodily injuries. The case was reported to the local and international
police (IPTF); however, the perpetrators were not punished. The monitor
emphasises that the family Durakovic is in close family relationship with
the former governor of Una-Sana Canton Mirsad Veladzic, who was recently
discharged, along with other 21 official, by the High Representative
Wolfgang Petritsch. In May 1998, on the demand of IPTF, unlawfully
possessed weapons were taken away from Durakovic family (machine-gun,
automatic gun, pistol, hand grenades and trunk of ammunition), yet they
were not punished for the unlawful possession of arms. The monitor of the
Helsinki Committee deems that assaults on Erdic are of political nature
because he is an activist of the Social Democratic Party, while in that
Canton the Party of Democratic Action is in power. In support of his
allegation, the monitor mentions the incidents when hand grenade was thrown
on Erdic's family house and explosive planted below his car and on the road
leading to his village. Perpetrators were discovered: Hazim Mujanovic -
Hama issued orders and financed the execution, Serif Cufurovic - Cigo
procured the materials and Rasim Nanic executed the orders. All three were
sentenced to jail, but did not serve the sentence completely, thanks to the
influential supporters.

ASSAULT ON PRIESTS
On 13 December, the Catholic News Agency (KTA) informed that a day earlier
priests had been assaulted in Derventa (Republic of Srpska - northern
Bosnia) by a group of Serb extremists. Priest Ivan Maric was physically
injured, while his car was broken. The assault took place after the visit
of Archbishop Cardinal Vinko Puljic and a group of priests to the parish of
St. George. Nonetheless, the high mass was officiated in the crypt of the
same destroyed church in which Cardinal Puljic, together with a group of
priests and believers, had been brutalised last year by Serb
ultranationalists for six hours.

CHRISTMAS EVE MASS AFTER EIGHT YEARS
After eight years, Christmas Eve Mass was served in Banja Luka (Republic of
Srpska - western Bosnia). About 80,000 Croats were expelled from the
territory of Banja Luka diocese by Serb extremists.

PREVENTING BURIAL
On 15 December, BHP reported the statement of the UN IPTF Spokesman in
Banja Luka reading that the Human Rights Chamber in BH warned the
authorities in Prnjavor (Republic of Srpska - northern Bosnia) not to
obstruct the burials of returnees. Namely, a family of a dead Bosniak, even
after three weeks, did not obtain permission to bury their relative in a
Muslim graveyard.

(NON)RETURN OF PROPERTY
The Human Rights Chamber in BH on 11 December in Sarajevo pronounced
decisions on merit in twenty cases against Republic of Srpska concerning
the usurpation of property of pre-war inhabitants of Gradiska and Koraske
Dobica. The damaged parties were awarded compensation in money to the
amounts varying from 1,000 to 4,200 DEM, along with the decision on return
of property.
The International Supervisor for BH Christian Swartz-Schilling, during his
visit to the biggest city in the Republic of Srpska, expressed, among else,
his disappointment with the fact that only one percent of cases concerning
the return of property had been disposed of in that entity. Thus, in
Prijedor, out of 8,842 claims for return of property, only about 900 were
resolved.
There are similar problems in the BH Federation. For example, out of 730
claims for return of property in Capljina, not even a single one was
resolved. In western Mostar, according to the Federation Ombudsmen, out of
6,044 claims submitted in the last year only 22 were resolved. This
concerns the municipalities in which the Croat Democratic Union is in power.

TIGHTENING ETHNIC LOOP
On 27 December, Dnevni avaz reported the news that 3,600 plots on the
Bosniak land were unlawfully allotted to Serb refugees for construction of
private houses in the area of Bijeljina (Republic of Srpska - north-eastern
Bosnia). The unlawful decision was passed by the Municipal Assembly despite
the Decision of the High Representative Carlos Westendorp of 26 May 1999 by
which the alloting of plots in social and private ownership was forbidden.
The newspaper points out that allotment of the plots creates an ethnic loop
around the place of Janja, where Bosniaks are living.

IN APARTMENTS OF OTHERS
On 6 December, the American Envoy for BH Robert Frowick handed over to
Miladin Dragicevic, Minister for Refugees and Displaced Persons in the
Government of the Republic of Srpska, a list with the names of 800 persons
using someone else's houses and apartments in Banja Luka, the biggest city
in that entity. On 8 December BHP gave excerpts from an article published
by Glas Srpski from Banja Luka which read that it was mainly the local
Serbs who, in various manners, occupied the houses and apartments of
Bosniaks and Croats who had abandoned these houses and apartments during
the war. However, the paper states that among the unlawful occupants there
are also both Bosniaks and Croats.
30 December issue of Dnevni avaz published a list of another 145 local
Serbs unlawfully occupying Bosniak and Croat houses in Banja Luka. The list
was made by the Association of Returnees to Banja Luka. The multi-ethnic
Housing Commission of the municipality of Brcko (District in north-east BH,
under international supervision), upon the request of the Supervisor Robert
Farrand, made a list of 169 Serb families who should be evicted from
unlawfully occupied apartments, reported ONASA on 24 December.

STOP DISCRIMINATION
The International Labour Office, the United Nations' body based in Geneva,
passed a decision to annihilate the consequences of discrimination against
Bosniaks and Serbs who were pre-war employees of the enterprise "Aluminij"
and "Soko" in the territory of Mostar (BH Federation - central
Herzegovina), where the Croat Democratic Union is in power. According to
the decision, about 2,000 workers, deprived of the right to work just on
grounds of not being Croats, must be returned to their jobs in these two
enterprises. The International Labour Office passed the decision on the
basis of the complaints lodged by the Association of the Independent Trade
Unions of BH and Trade Union of Metal Workers based in Sarajevo.

STATE COMPOSED OF MINORITIES
On 27 December, at the press conference in Sarajevo, leaders of four
non-governmental organisations in BH - Club of Independent Intellectuals
99, Council of Congress of Bosniak Intellectuals, Croat People's Council
and Serb Civic Council pointed out that situation with human rights in
Bosnia and Herzegovina could not get even a passable grade. Special
attention was given to the constitutive status of peoples, that is to say,
to (in)equality of peoples before Constitution in both entities. Precisely,
according to the Constitutions of entities, and in contravention to the
Constitution of BH, Bosniaks and Croats who together were in the majority
in that region in 1991 are now minority in the Republic of Srpska, and vice
versa, in the BH Federation the Serbs are now the minority although before
the war there was a great number of Serbs in the region. Thus, BH is a
state composed of minorities. At the conference it was also pointed that
active and passive voting rights had also been reduced, this being the
consequence of the provisions of the BH Constitution.

SDA PUNISHED
On 28 December, the Mission of the Organisation for Security and
Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to BH informed of the Decision of the
Electoral Appeals Commission (EASC) to punish the Party of Democratic
Action (SDA) by removing from the list its 15 candidates for local
elections in April this year. It was done because there were 3,500 forged
applications for registration of voters which had been sent from the
Consular Office of BH to New York, under control of the SDA. The leader of
SDA Alija Izetbegovic is a member of the BH Presidency.

OPERATION "WESTAR"
On 14 December, in western Mostar (BH Federation - central Herzegovina),
where the Croat Democratic Union is in power, SFOR undertook an action
under the name of "Westar", during which evidence was found about the
activities of the Croatian Information Agency (HIS) from the neighbouring
state of the Republic of Croatia, illegal National Security Agency (SIS)
from Mostar and their mutual co-operation, and a written document
confirming this confiscated. The signatories are the Directors of the
mentioned agencies, Miroslav Tudjman, son of the recently passed away
President of Croatia, and Ivica Primorac. The agencies were preparing
actions against the implementation of the Dayton Agreement, and for
fragmentation of BH and annexation of a part of BH to Croatia. In addition,
the officials of the International Criminal Tribune in the Hague were
tailed and secretly filmed during their stay in Livno (BH Federation -
south-western Bosnia) where they were investigating the liability of Croats
indicted for crimes against Bosniaks. The Croats working for the
international organisations in BH were also targeted by intelligence
service. They were tailed and observed, with an aim to recruit them
eventually. The information agencies particularly covered the work of the
international organisations in the territory of Neretva-Herzegovina Canton,
as well as of embassies of Islamic countries in BH. Apart from the
documents concerning espionage activities, for which the official of SFOR
said that they "present clear threat to BH citizens", an arsenal of weapons
and ammunition, equipment for manufacture of forged telephone and credit
cards and pornographic materials intended for illegal procurement of funds
were also discovered.

PROTEST TO SFOR
The Association of Croat Journalists issued a sharp protest because SFOR
had, during the 14 December operation in western part of Mostar (undertaken
for the purpose of finding evidence about illegal activities of the
Croatian Information Agency in BH), "forcefully entered the premises of
EROTEL and literally held captive about fifteen employees, forcing each one
of them to put a sheet of paper with written name and surname in front of
them and then taking photographs of them, keeping them in captivity for
four hours". SFOR asserted that EROTEL was not the target of the operation
but that it was located in a building which was object of the operation.

ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF MEDIA
Draft Law on "Compensation for Damage Caused by Defamation and Libel",
drawn up by the Government of the BH Federation, caused indignation among
the media workers and democratic public. The anticipated fines ranging from
2,000 to 10,000 DEM for journalists and 20,000 to 100,000 DEM for
publishers, respectively; if adopted, they would imply a direct pressure
against independent journalism, would force journalists to perform
self-censorship, and, considering the high financial fines for publishers,
particularly in view of the financial situation in BH and in media, would
lead to extinction of mass media. The Ombudsmen of the Federation also
criticised the Government's draft, proposing a symbolic fine of 1 DEM for
causing intangible damages, because "the purpose is not to compensate the
money but to establish the truth and publish the truth, thereby raising the
level of accountability of press and promoting its credibility". In case
that their proposal were not to be accepted, the Ombudsmen propose that
only fines for publishers be introduced, in the amounts ranging from 1,000
to 3,000 DEM.
The proposal of the Government is a kind of revenge to counter the decision
of the High Representative Carlos Westendorp, according to which defamation
and libel are not treated as criminal acts but acts treated within civil
proceedings.

AUTHORITIES AGAINST MEDIA
The analysis of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in BH concerning
the situation in media in Bosnia and Herzegovina was presented at the press
conference in Sarajevo on 11 January. The analysis was a result of a
one-year research conducted by the Helsinki Committee within the framework
of the project concerning the situation in media in Bosnia and Herzegovina
in the context of human rights.
The President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in BH, Srdjan
Dizdarevic stressed that the research has shown that BH media were only
seemingly free, while the journalists were increasingly the target of
physical assaults, pressures and intimidation. "The three ruling
oligarchies are ruling by the means of the information system and are using
the most influential media as propaganda machines", said Dizdarevic and
emphasised: "Assault on Zeljko Kopanja indicated the limits of journalism
in these territories. This tragic event has shown that journalists can
survive only if they do not touch upon the authorities and misdeeds they
commit "in the name of their people". When journalists overstep that limit,
what happened to Kopanja happens to them as well."
The President of the Helsinki Committee drew attention to numerous examples
of anonymous letters, threats by phone and harassment of journalists. In
addition, journalists are being denied information, ruling parties and
nomenclature show favoritism to some media, while media are abused for
nationalistic and chauvinistic purposes. Dizdarevic stressed the importance
of international support to independent media, including the financial
support, arguing against the untenable thesis according to which the media
here must operate exclusively within the logic of market economy, something
that is impossible in BH under present conditions. He criticised the
international factors for failing to understand completely the reality in
BH, this leading them to adopt unsuitable stands; he also reminded of a
failure to react to the dismissals of journalists from OBN and FERN.
Dizdarevic expressed his hope that the international factors would give
their support, among else, to legally regulating the freedom of journalism.
Press conference on the state in BH media and the report about it were
widely publicised in written and electronic media, both national and
international.

JOURNALIST SUSPENDED
On 13 December, BHP reported from Banja Luka (Republic of Srpska - western
Bosnia) a protest of the Independent Association of Journalists of RS
against the manner in which a journalist of TRV RS Slavica Sabljic had been
suspended by the international administrator of RTV RS Dragan Gasic.
Sabljic was suspended and forbidden to enter the business premises of the
RTV RS with an explanation that, by accepting the decision of the
Government of the Republic of Srpska of 5 December to nominate him for the
acting Director of RTV RS, he had "enabled, through his personal
participation in the procedure of unlawful appointment of acting Director
of RTV RS, unlawful involvement of unauthorised subjects in the procedure
of appointment of the Director General ". Namely, Milorad Dodik, the Prime
Minister of RS, is trying to gain absolute control over the RTV RS, in
spite of opposition of international mediators, whose political protege he
is otherwise. The Government of RS is refused the right to appoint the
highest executive officers in that house against the will of the Board of
Directors of the RTV RS, under which jurisdiction it falls. The Independent
Association of Journalists deems that Sabljic is a victim of a settling of
accounts, that his dismissal is not legally grounded and that such an act
does not contribute to democratization of the RS media.

STEERING BOARD OF RTV OF BH FEDERATION
In Sarajevo, on 14 December, the inaugural session of the Steering Board of
the RTV of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was held in the
presence of the High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, who opened the
meeting. Petritsch, who appointed the 21st member of the Steering Board of
RTV of BH Federation, expressed his determination to transform the RTV
network in BH. The project would be based on two self-sustainable RTV
houses of the Entities "which would be supported by a powerful central
pillar of a Public State Radio-Television Service". The national parties in
power oppose this concept because they want to keep control over the main
electronic media. Wolfgang Petritsch, like his predecessor Carlos
Westendorp, wants to develop an RTV network in line with modern
professional and democratic standards, which would strongly contribute to
the implementation of the Dayton Agreement, return of confidence amongst
the peoples and persons and establishment of an integral and democratic
state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

SLOW RETURN
On 28 December, at the press conference, the President of the Association
of refugees and Displaced Persons in BH Mirhunisa Komarica presented to
journalists the information concerning the returns in 1999. About 65,000
returned to the BH Federation, of which 30,000 returned to Sarajevo, while
only about 13,000 people returned to the Republic of Srpska by August.
There are about 840,000 displaced persons in BH (about 500,000 in BH F and
about 340,000 in RS), and if refugees are also taken into account, there
are almost 1,500,000 citizens of BH outside their homes four years after
the signing of the Dayton Agreement.

FAXLETTER is produced by the
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHC).
It is published by the BHC
and the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF), Vienna.

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