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	International Crisis Group - Impunity In Drvar
		Hard-line officials of the HDZ in Canton 10 and Drvar continue to act with impunity.
		Moreover, Ante Jelavic, the HDZ candidate for the Croat member of the Bosnia¡¦s Joint Presidency has stated in the Croat media that: ¡§Drvar is and will remain a Croat town in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.¡¨ These are dangerous messages to leave unchallenged, particularly during an election campaign.
		Above all, what is needed is a shared commitment to a vision of Drvar, and Canton 10 generally, as genuinely multi-ethnic, governed by the rule of law and the will of the people, free of criminal influences in governance, policing and the economy, with equal protection for the rights of all.
	www.crisisgroup.org /home/index.cfm?id=1512&l=1 (842 words)

	UNHCR - Obstruction of the Right to Return to Drvar
		Drvar is a key municipality since, with great effort, it may be possible to begin there the process of displaced persons' return, which was promised in the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA).
		Before the war, when Drvar was known as Titov Drvar, some 9,000 people lived in the town and some 17,000 in the municipality, of whom 97.3 per cent were Serbs and 2.7 per cent "others".
		During and after the Drvar arsons, several representatives of international organisations stated that much of their work was less effective than it would have been had they acted in concert.
	www.unhcr.org /home/RSDCOI/3ae6a6d238.html (3692 words)

	Peace Magazine v20n3p16: Peace without Prosperity: The Legacy of Peacebuilding in Drvar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In April 1998, Drvar, which nestles in a narrow valley near the Croatian border in northwestern Bosnia, was the scene of one of the ugliest bursts of ethnic violence since the Dayton Peace Accords ended the Bosnian war in late 1995.
		Pre-war Drvar was, in fact, a rarity among Bosnian communities in that its population was largely mono-ethnic -- 99 percent of the town's 17,000 pre-war inhabitants were Serb.
		Drvar's displaced Serb population was among the first to actively pursue this right to return.
	archive.peacemagazine.org /v20n3p16.htm (1574 words)

	Arbitration Award on the Implementation of the Municipal Election Results in Drvar - Sarajevo, 14 September 1999
		Although more than a year has passed since Drvar was granted Final Certification in March 1998, a fully functioning municipal executive body has yet to become a reality.
		Since April 1998, due to his courageous efforts to ensure the return of refugees and displaced persons to Drvar, the Mayor has faced legitimate security concerns that have prevented him from taking on the responsibilities of the position he was elected to.
		Momcilo Bajic from the Coalition for Drvar as Municipal Mayor.
	www.ohr.int /other-doc/fed-mtng/default.asp?content_id=3637 (496 words)

	Half-Empty or Half-Full Towns? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		VUKOVAR, Croatia, KOZARAC and DRVAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina--Are you an optimist or a pessimist?
		Drvar, in western Bosnia, was not a ruin, but its entire Serbian population had fled, only to be replaced by Croatian refugees.
		Drvar, of course, was a famous Partisan stronghold during the Second World War and you can still see the cave where the wartime leader, Josip Broz Tito, lived during his time here.
	www.tol.cz /look/BRR/tolprint.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=4&NrArticle=11547&ST1=body&ST_T1=brr&ST_AS1=1&ST_max=1 (2774 words)

	PMag v20n3p16 -- Peace without Prosperity: The Legacy of Peacebuilding in Drvar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In April 1998, Drvar, which nestles in a narrow valley near the Croatian border in northwestern Bosnia, was the scene of one of the ugliest bursts of ethnic violence since the Dayton Peace Accords ended the Bosnian war in late 1995.
		Pre-war Drvar was, in fact, a rarity among Bosnian communities in that its population was largely mono-ethnic -- 99 percent of the town's 17,000 pre-war inhabitants were Serb.
		Drvar's displaced Serb population was among the first to actively pursue this right to return.
	www.peacemagazine.org /archive/v20n3p16.htm (1595 words)

	Tito's cave in Bosnia reopened to public (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sarajevo - A cave near the western Bosnian town of Drvar in which the former Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito hid from Nazi hunts during World War II was reopened Thursday for visitors after almost 15 years.
		However, thanks to a couple of partisan brigades Tito managed to escape Drvar and reach the Croatian island of Vis, from where he commanded his troops for several months.
		Tito's cave in Drvar was among the most popular tourist attractions in the former Yugoslavia, but was closed and completely neglected during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /europe/printer_1166914.php (225 words)

	Gastroenteritis Outbreak Among Canadian Forces Members: Bosnia-Herzengovina
		Other CF camps (Drvar, Bihac, Gos Peak, Mount Gola, Velika Kladusa, Banja Luka) sharing military duties, vacations/leaves, or common water sources with Zgon were contacted to determine whether they had experienced an increase in gastrointestinal illness.
		Drvar reported such an increase, and similar data were obtained for these individuals.
		Drvar had a small female population (n = 9) with no cases; all the cases were male with an attack rate of 12% (19/161).
	www.phac-aspc.gc.ca /publicat/ccdr-rmtc/05vol31/dr3113ea.html (2365 words)

	Legion Magazine : A Show Of Support
		At Drvar, the portable stage was set up in a field opposite the camp’s main building–an old grain mill and grain storage facility.
		Indeed, the need for a break was apparent in Drvar where soldiers have fresh memories of the April 24 riot that ravaged the downtown core and left a number of people, including four Canadian soldiers, injured.
		A contributing factor that led to the double murder and riot in Drvar is the unwillingness by some communities to accept one of the fundamental thrusts of the Dayton accord: The safe return of people displaced from their homes during the war.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/memoirspilgrimages/98-09b.asp (3045 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Return and reconciliation are the twin pillars of Drvar’s post-war recovery and the twin pillars of the post-war recovery ofBosnia and Herzegovina as a whole.
		But large numbers of people – and Drvar has been an important example of this – have chosen to come home and to restart their lives in communities that were devastated between 1992 and 1995.
		Entrepreneurs are not going to move to Drvar to start new companies as long as the level of electrification remains low and narrow, pot-holed roads are the rule rather than the exception.
	www.eusrbih.org /media/speeches/1/?cid=982,1,1 (1396 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		``The vandalism in Drvar is sadly not an isolated event but part of a sustained campaign to prevent the return of minorities,'' the ICG report said.
		Before the war, Drvar had a predominantly Serb population which fled after Croat forces captured the area at the close of Bosnia's conflict in 1995.
		Drvar authorities have since encouraged Croats from towns in Serb or Muslim-held areas to move to the municipality, including some 2,000 soldiers serving in the Bosnian Croat militia.
	www.mosquitonet.com /~prewett/bosniancroatsacc.html (268 words)

	UNHCR - Refugees Magazine Issue 114 (Balkans) - Drvar: Bosnia’s Don Quixote
		A stout, greying middle-aged former salesman, he and thousands of fellow Serbs were driven from their childhood home in Drvar by Croatian and Muslim troops pressing the final offensive of the conflict in 1995.
		But in local elections permitting refugees to cast absentee ballots in their pre-war locations, Marceta was elected mayor of the town in 1997 and immediately began pursuing his dream.
		Though they had comprised 97 percent of the town’s population before the war, the region is now dominated by Croat nationalists determined to keep the region ethnically pure.
	www.unhcr.org /publ/PUBL/3b812bc35.html (496 words)

	CARE International UK : Feature articles : Banking on success (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Drvar is situated in western Herzegovina, in a valley squeezed between two mountain ranges and between two borders.
		In turn, the Croats of Herzegovina (the western and southern areas of Bosnia-Herzegovina) bombarded and burnt Drvar and the Serbian villages, driving much of the Serbian population from the town into Serbian-occupied areas in Croatia and elsewhere.
		In a town like Drvar where banks no longer exist, there is no source of credit for any business, and even if there was a bank it would be unlikely to lend to a business without sound collateral - and little collateral exists in an isolated and damaged town.
	www.careinternational.org.uk /?lid=2424&tmpl=printpage (1111 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Drvar, Bosnia; 4 September 1996 (RFE/RL) -- Drvar in western Bosnia used to be a predominantly Serb town.
		Serb refugees from Drvar, Glamoc and other western Bosnian towns overrun by the Croats last year have formed associations to lobby for their eventual return.
		The Roman Catholic priest in Drvar, Kazimir Visaticki, serves a large portion of the town's 6,000 new Croatian residents.
	www.rferl.org /features/1996/09/F.RU.96090415584161.asp (524 words)

	Balkans photo feature 0700 - Return to Bosnia
		Drvar's Serb population fled - to Serbia or to Serb controlled parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		Since 1998 a growing number of Serbs have returned to villagers surrounding Drvar and a few hundred even to a block of flats on the outskirts of the town.
		Krneta works for an association of Serb refugees from Drvar and it is her job to assist other returning families with all the problems of returning after more than five years away from home.
	www.act-intl.org /news/dt_nr_2000/dtba_pho0700.html (1062 words)

	WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS... Bosnians Building Peace in Bosnia -- CRC in the News
		Until now, most of the people had to face housing conflicts on their own, mainly because the local authorities and international organizations are overwhelmed with housing, unemployment and other problems, as well as many legal and political issues.
		The returnees that are living in flats in Drvar are basically in a ghetto protected by SFOR (the NATO forces).
		She argues that in spite of the difficulties in Drvar, Neighborhood Facilitators have achieved something valuable: the positive response of the returnees.
	www.crcvt.org /lina.html (1315 words)

	CRC 1998: From the Field
		Drvar has been indentified as a priority area of refugee return for several reasons, not the least of which is a large number of vacant houses within its municipality.
		In Drvar, Serb houses have been burned and/or looted with the tacit approval of the authorities and vacant houses have been advertised for resettlement to displaced Croats from Central Bosnia as well as Croat refugees in Germany.
		The goal of NF, in Drvar, is facilitate and participate in the successful and sustainable return of Drvar Serbs to their homes as well as the successful and sustainable development of peaceful communities, through the develpment and use of local discussion groups.
	www.crcvt.org /98field.html (2263 words)

	NATO/SFOR : Transcript of Press Briefing, May 5, 1997
		Drvar, unfortunately, is becoming one of the fl spots on the map of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		I would also note that in the last couple weeks I've briefed you a number of times about the mayor of Drvar's refusal to comply with the media expert commission's decision requiring him to broadcast, personally, an apology for statements made earlier which were in violation of the PEC guidelines and they were untrue.
		Q: Kris, the Srpska authorities attitude towards the refugees moving back to Drvar --in the past, there's been a lot of talk that the Srpska authorities in the (indiscernible) are basically in cahoots and agreement that Drvar should remain Croat controlled and sort of a swap of territory.
	www.nato.int /sfor/trans/1997/t970505a.htm (3337 words)

	Making return possible - Page 10
		According to Fabio Amici, the head of CESVI's Drvar office, 704 houses are currently being rebuilt in the town in order to accommodate returning displaced persons and refugees.
		In parallel with its reconstruction program in Drvar, CESVI is also helping to rebuild houses and infrastructure in Kakanj municipality in the Central Bosnia Canton.
		Amici, the co-operation with the municipal authorities of Drvar and Kakanj is currently satisfactory and is expected to improve in the future.
	www.seerecon.org /bosnia/ec/homeland/B10.htm (466 words)

	International Orthodox Christian Charities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Drvar, Bosnia-Herzegovina (IOCC) From a Tito museum to a headquarters for community groups, the NGO Resource Center in Drvar has had a long and storied history.
		After WWII, it was converted into a museum about Tito’s WWII hideout in the hills surrounding Drvar and his crafty 1944 escape from a major German paratroop assault there, aimed at his capture.
		Currently, six community organizations are housed in the Drvar Center, as well as the NGO Forum, a representative body for like-minded agencies in the region.
	www.iocc.org /nwsltr/fall2004/fall2004_pg4.shtml (1042 words)

	[No title]
		Initiative for implementation of this project came from Drvar Local Action Group that is formed and acting within UNDP SUTRA Project and is comprised of one representative of Drvar Municipality, one representative of Association of Independent Entrepreneurs Progres and one representative of Refugee Return Service from Drvar.
		Project of reconstruction of this apartment block situated in Drvar urban zone is unifying joint efforts of local authorities and international organizations with regards to return and reconstruction of dwellings destroyed during the war.
		Non-governmental organization Refugee Return Service (RRS) from Drvar is recommended to act as implementer of this project, on the basis of their long term engagement and experience in reconstruction projects and projects of return of refugees and displaced persons in Drvar and Canton 10.
	www.undp.ba /?PID=7&RID=345 (482 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Serb houses torched in Bosnia
		United Nations officials in Bosnia-Hercegovina have gone to the western town of Drvar to investigate a wave of arson attacks on houses belonging to its former Serb inhabitants.
		A UN spokesman, Alexander Ivanko, said several houses had been torched in the past two weeks in what could be seen as an organised campaign to prevent the return of Serbs to their pre-war homes.
		Drvar, now under Bosnian-Croat control, was predominantly Serb until the closing weeks of the Bosnian war in 1995.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/57895.stm (119 words)

	Service - Bosnia: Rebuilding Continues
		One affected area is the municipality of Drvar, overtaken by the Croatian military in September 1995.
		Among those living in Drvar before the war were Zdravka and Dragan Vekic.
		After three years in Shamatz, they returned to Drvar in 1998, but found their home destroyed.
	www.churchworldservice.org /service/spring06/bosnia.html (395 words)

	Service - Bosnia: Rebuilding Continues
		It is a heartbreaking sight, as many refugee and displaced families still cannot return home to their communities.
		One affected area is the municipality of Drvar, overtaken by the Croatian military in September 1995.
		After three years in Shamatz, they returned to Drvar in 1998, but found their home destroyed.
	churchworldservice.org /service/spring06/bosnia.html (395 words)

	NATO/SFOR Informer: UNHCR CoM, DCOMSFOR visit Drvar
		Drvar's name comes from the word Drvo, which means wood.
		Drvar - The first Bosnian-Serb return to Drvar occurred in late 1997 under very difficult conditions.
		Drvar came to the forefront of the news after the 1998 riot and 1999 beatings.
	www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/123/p02a/t0102a.htm (650 words)

	Nasa Borba - Letters to the editor - : ICG Press Release
		The violence in Drvar began in the early afternoon of Friday 24 April.
		Drvar, the local Chief of Police and the Cantonal Interior Minister.
		The fingerprints of the HDZ leadership are all over the events in Drvar.
	www.yurope.com /nasa-borba/email/0102.html (916 words)

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