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Topic: Bosansko Grahovo


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 1998/06/25 18:51 Returnees accept the local and canton's authorities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bosansko Grahovo, 25 June 1998 (AIM) - Since the local authorities has been implemented in Bosansko Grahovo, two sides, Croat and Serb established a good cooperation between them and former Serb population from this municipality is visiting Bosansko Grahovo, their cemeteries and destroyed houses, without any limit nor problem.
Grahovo municipal Assembly board member and independent candidate at last elections, came back to Bosansko Grahovo.
He and his colleague Slobodan Sabljic, the actual President of the municipal board Bosansko Grahovo, invited their citizens in May this year to avoid watching the Serb television, them turning them from the right direction.
www.aimpress.ch /dyn/izbe/archive/data/199806/80625-033-izbe-sar.htm   (177 words)

  
 Youth in BiH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bosansko Grahovo is a small city in western Bosnia and Herzegovina, directly at the border with Croatia.
For their ten children, lessons were organized in an old Grahovo grammar school that was almost totally destroyed in the war.
When her family returned to Grahovo three years ago, the school was still not open for 5th through 8th grade students, so she had to travel everyday to the nearest school, which was in Drvar.
www.mirkoonline.com /english/62/youth.htm   (547 words)

  
 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Municipalities: Bosansko Grahovo, Drvar, Glamoc, Kupres, Livno, Tomislavgrad
The mayor of Drvar is Bosnian Serb and belongs to the SNSD party; the mayor of Bosansko Grahovo is also Bosnian Serb and belongs to the SPRS party; the mayors of Glamoc, Livno, Kupres and Tomislavgrad are all Bosnian Croats and belong to the HDZ party.
In March 2001, an explosion occurred at a reconstructed school in Bosansko Grahovo which was to be used as a communal house and a hand grenade was thrown at a house belonging to returnees.
www.unhcr.ba /handbook/eng/cantons/c10.htm   (518 words)

  
 Bosansko Grahovo Map, Map of Bosansko Grahovo | infohub.com
Bosansko Grahovo Map, Map of Bosansko Grahovo
Here you will find a treasure of information with regard to map of Bosansko Grahovo as well as a wealth of information on the subject of Bosansko Grahovo maps.
This "maps of Bosansko Grahovo" page will be updated frequently, so visit early and visit often.
www.infohub.com /Maps/bosansko_grahovo_map_3066.html   (99 words)

  
 Making return possible - Page 25
The targeted areas for this scheme were Banja Luka, Drvar, Bosansko Grahovo, Mrkonjic Grad, Sipovo, Knezevo, Dubica, Rude, Zvornik, Bijeljina, Brcko, Trebinje, Kupres, Visegrad, Bratunac, Srpsko Sarajevo, Fojnica, Prijedor, Ilidza, Doboj and Derventa.
In Drvar and Bosansko alone, 76 projects were funded during 1998 and 1999.
Returnees to Drvar and Bosansko Grahovo who wanted to start up businesses in the production and agricultural sectors had to fulfil a set of different criteria to other entrepreneurs seeking European Commission funds through MLS.
www.seerecon.org /Bosnia/ec/homeland/B25.htm   (691 words)

  
 Bosansko Grahovo (Na Engleskom) - Message Board - ezboard.com
Displaced Croats Demand Suspension of the Eviction Process The Association of the Displaced Croats in Bosansko Grahovo, requested the Livno Canton Government suspend the eviction process in the Bosansko Grahovo Municipality, due to the unresolved issue of alternative accommodation for the evicted families.
In a letter the Association members sent to the Livno Canton Government, it is stated that the displaced persons and refugees from Bosansko Grahovo are put in an extremely difficult situation.
Further on, the letter reads that the apartments, from which temporary users are evicted, are still unsettled.
p206.ezboard.com /freferendumfrm24.showMessage?topicID=9.topic   (150 words)

  
 New Development Solutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On September 25, 2006 NDS was contracted by Church World Service to work with its partners in Bosansko, Grahovo, Bosnia-Herzagovina to create income generation projects in this region which is still struggling to emerge from the recent civil conflict.
This is part of a larger is part of a larger initiative, “Build a Village”, which seeks to improve the livelihoods of individuals in targeted rural communities with high concentration of returnees in a sustainable, holistic and participatory manner.
To assess and analyze the situation in the municipality of Bosanko Grahovo using, but not limited to, review of existing program documentation, secondary data, needs assessment and field visits.
www.newdevelopmentsolutions.com /newsoctbosnia.htm   (311 words)

  
 SFOR Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Media Summary
Canadians assist returnees in Bosansko Grahovo and Glamoc
On Saturday, the Canadian Ambassador to BiH, Sam Hanson, said at the veterinary station opening ceremony in Bosansko Grahovo that the Canadian Government and its troops within SFOR had reconstructed a number of houses, schools, hospitals and other utility company facilities in BiH.
Acting Head of Bosansko Grahovo municipality, Nebojsa Prpa, extended his thanks to the Canadian Government and its soldiers for their past assistance and said that he hoped that their good co-operative relations would continue in the future.
www.nato.int /sfor/media/2003/ms030324.htm   (1187 words)

  
 Main News Summary
The Croatian flag remained where it was, and SFOR intensified movement in the town after pulling down the Serb flag.
Grahovo mayor Nebojsa Prpa said the situation with the flags was a provocation, since 3,500 Serbs and 170 Croats lived in Grahovo.
He said Serb returnees were asking that Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation and Bosnia-Hercegovina flags be hoisted in Bosansko Grahovo.
www.nato.int /sfor/media/2003/ms031205t.htm   (2801 words)

  
 Making return possible - Pages 16, 17
Hilfswerk is also well known in the regions of Bosanski Petrovac and Bosansko Grahovo.
The villages of Smoljani and Krnja Jela are also set to benefit from Hilfswerk's actions as the organisation is planning to re-establish local electricity supplies.
In the area around the town of Bosansko Grahovo, more than 70,000 EURO has been invested in projects to re-house returnees.
www.seerecon.org /bosnia/ec/homeland/B16-17.htm   (974 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Answering a question about the tribunal's problematic funding, she stressed that the tribunal will keep going as long as is necessary because that is "the best investment in the future" for the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
A well-known local criminal allegedly beat journalist Todor Micic with an iron bar near Bosansko Grahovo on 9 October, breaking both of Micic's legs and leaving him in a condition that will require surgery to correct, Deutsche Welle's Bosnian Service reported on 15 October.
Serbian forces drove non-Serbs out of Bosansko Grahovo early in the 1992-95 conflict, and Croatian forces expelled the former Serbian majority in 1995.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/10/4-SEE/see-151004.asp   (1614 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch Offers Agenda for Albright in Croatia, Bosnia, and Russia (Human Rights Watch, 28-8-1998)
During the violent demonstration in Drvar in April 1998, local police were observed walking in the crowd, without any attempt to control the crowd.
Furthermore, a police officer from Bosansko Grahovo encouraged a crowd to block an SFOR vehicle from moving, and even put a log in front of the vehicle.
Indicted persons and others who are believed to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war continue to exert control over parts of Bosnia and Hercegovina.
www.hrw.org /press98/aug/bos0828.htm   (5029 words)

  
 CNN - Organizers call Bosnia elections a success - Sept. 14, 1997
Some 400,000 people cast absentee ballots, and about 35,000 others were expected to actually cross into opposition areas to vote.
Some election observers predicted the Croat nationalists could lose in Drvar, Glamoc and Bosansko Grahovo -- towns along the country's western border with Croatia.
They were predominantly Serb before the war but were captured by Croat troops at the end of the Bosnian conflict.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9709/14/bosnia   (776 words)

  
 June 26, 1995. Vreme News Digest Agency No 195
At the same time, they stepped up their pressure on Majevica and the combined Croat-Bosnian offensive on Bosansko Grahovo continued.
UN observers and officers think all that is just a reinforcement of their strategy of drawing Bosnian Serb Army (BSA) forces thin along a 1,500 kilometer front; this is a war of exhaustion with large human resources being used to waste away the enemy's critically low resources (manpower, fuel and equipment).
The Croat Defence Force (HVO) advanced north after taking Livansko Polje, not towards Knin and cut the Glamoc-Bosansko Grahovo road endangering the Knin-Grahovo road, Grahovo itself and Drvar and Glamoc.
www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/195/t195-7.htm   (883 words)

  
 Maps, Weather, and Airports for Bosansko Grahovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Maps, Weather, and Airports for Bosansko Grahovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Approximate population for 7 km radius from this point: 7064
Google links for Bosansko Grahovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
www.fallingrain.com /world/BK/1/Bosansko_Grahovo.html   (47 words)

  
 OSCE in BiH > Human Rights
Both private property and the occupancy rights to socially-owned apartments have been recognised as protected possessions under Article 1 of Protocol 1 to the European Convention by the decisions of the Human Rights Chamber.
Marko, a Serb returnee, has moved into his newly repaired, pre-war home in the settlement of Crni Lug near Bosansko Grahovo.
Since 1998, laws have been in force in both Entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina that create an administrative claims process for returning pre-war property to refugees and displaced persons.
www.oscebih.org /human_rights/repossession.asp?d=1   (527 words)

  
 August 7, Vreme News Digest Agency No 201
Two statements are still valid after the fall of Bosansko Grahovo and Glamoc; both illustrate the relationship between the three ethnic groups and warring sides in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Whether they liked it or not, The Croats had to help the Bosnians at Bihac, Grahovo and Glamoc.
Bihac is important to the Croats because of the railway that runs through it and because it is strategically necessary for future operations to take RSK territory.
www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/201/t201-3.htm   (557 words)

  
 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Phoxinellus alepidotus
It is known only from the Cetina river basin and to the Livanjsko, Glamocko, and Grahovo Polje karsts in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
It is possibly absent in the Cetina river basin (Mrakovcic, M. pers comm).
Maric, D. Reproduction of Phoxinellus alepidotus Heckel, 1843 from the underground stream Korana, near Bosansko Grahovo.
www.iucnredlist.org /search/details.php/39273/all   (317 words)

  
 bosnia ch4
The data were collected twice a month on 109 towns spread throughout Bosnia and sent to the ARRC to be analyzed.
Two control towns were selected to represent the worst case (Bosansko Grahovo, a ghost town) and best case (Tomislavgrad, a normal town) situations.
A monthly assessment of the sampled towns against the control towns using a simple red (poorest), amber, yellow, and green (best) relative-rating scheme was employed to quickly judge and display the status of towns and Opstinas.
www.fas.org /irp/ops/smo/docs/ifor/bosch04.htm   (18006 words)

  
 Genealogy ; Srbija i Crna Gora, Serbia & Montenegro :: Bosna - Bosnia :: Deura/Micic
I'm trying to find information on my family.
My grandparents, Svetko and Milka Deura were from Bosansko Grahovo.
My grandfather's parents were Stevan and Milica Deura, I do not know her maiden name.
www.rodoslovlje.com /phorum/read.php?19,1264   (237 words)

  
 TIME.com: WAR ON ALL FRONTS -- Aug. 7, 1995 -- Page 1
Up to 10,000 Croat troops attacked south and west of Bihac, cutting a main supply route between the two Serb strongholds of Knin in Croatia and Banja Luka in Bosnia.
Artillery fire sent 5,000 Serb civilians fleeing from the town of Bosansko Grahovo, which the Croats captured on Friday.
Croat forces followed up by taking nearby Glamoc and shelling Strmica.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,983270,00.html   (836 words)

  
 Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Today, they are waiting to go home to towns and villages throughout southeast Bosnia: Visegrad, Rudo, Cajnice, Rogatica, Sokolac, Foca, Pale and Kopaci.
On the other side, in the Serb Republic, are Serbs waiting to return to their homes in what is now the Federation -- towns like Sarajevo, Jajce, Bosansko Grahovo -- and of course Gorazde.
Out of this Chinese puzzle, Peter has chosen two towns -- Gorazde and Kopaci.
www.advocacynet.org /news_view/news_242.html   (2677 words)

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