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  Jajce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jajce is a town in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation.
Jajce is a town that was first built in the 14th century and which served as the capital of the independent Bosnian kingdom during its time.
Jajce gained prominence during the Second World War because it hosted the second convention of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia on November 29, 1943, a meeting that set the foundation for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after WWII.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jajce   (509 words)

  
 Data's about Jajce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The municipality of Jajce is located in the central part of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the western part of the Central Bosnian Canton.
Jajce was connected to the rest of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy by the Jajce-Banja Luka road and the Jajce-Lašva and the Jajce-Mliništa railroads.
During the period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941), Jajce was the administrative centre of the region.
www.opcina-jajce.tel.net.ba /data's_about_jajce.htm   (657 words)

  
 Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund
The municipality of Jajce is situated in the southern part of the Central Bosnia Canton.
It borders the municipalities of Donji Vakuf, Travnik, Mrkonjić Grad, Šipovo and Kneževo.
In that period, Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats fled seeking refuge in the municipalities of Travnik, Vinac, Bugojno, Busovača and Vitez.
www.asb-see.org /jajce.htm   (283 words)

  
 Committee Compiling Data on Crimes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Blažo Đaković, from the village of Potoci, municipality of Ribnik.
Milka Đukić, from the village of Vrbljani, municipality of Ribnik, born in 1907 in the village of Mrđe, municipality of Petrovac, to father Steva.
Vukosava Đuričić, from the village of Vrbljani, municipality of Ribnik.
www.balkanpeace.org /wcs/wct/wcts/wcts14.shtml   (12841 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jajce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Gračanica is a town and a municipality in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, located east of Doboj and west of Tuzla.
Shield of Konjic with the Neretva river Municipality of Konjic (marked green) Konjic is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina situated on the Neretva river.
Teslić is a town and a municipality in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, located southwest of Doboj, west of Tešanj and southeast of Banja Luka.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jajce   (1627 words)

  
 Balkan Repository Project - Crimes commited by Croatian Army in Mrkonjic Grad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It is 60 km from Banja Luka and 25 km from Jajce.
Blazo Djakovic, from the village of Potoci, municipality of Ribnik.
Milka Djukic, from the village of Vrbljani, municipality of Ribnik, born in 1907 in the village of Mrdje, municipality of Petrovac, to father Steva.
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /politics/war_crimes/report6/Mrkonjic_Grad.html   (12848 words)

  
 Canton Central Bosnia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Case of Ivica Izrael is illustrative one for this Municipality: in early 1999 he got decision on repossession of apartment, three months latter he requested execution, yet he is still not reinstated although temporary occupant is not entitled to alternative accommodation and despite of repeated ombuds-interventions.
With regard to Bugojno Municipality, such apartments are in several cases used for temporary accommodation of the disabled or families of killed soldiers.
In most of municipalities there are two social work centers, which results in irrational spending of insufficient resources envisaged for social protection and unequal position of citizens in exercising of right to social protection.
www.bihfedomb.org /eng/reports/2000/rpt2000sbkanton.htm   (2361 words)

  
 Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Federation Central Bosnia Municipalities with a Special Emphasis on the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Municipal Secretariat of General Administration in Zenica municipality still refuses to register children born in the Maternity Hospital in Zenica in the book of births, the parents of whom are living on the territory of the Federation controlled by the HVO.
According to the 1991 census, the Municipality of Jajce had 44,903 inhabitants, out of which 17,400 (or 38.8%) were Bosniaks-Muslims, 15,781 (or 35.1%) were Croats, 8,684 (or 19.3%) were Serbs and 3,038 (or 6.8%) were "others." A large percentage of the Bosniak-Muslim population of Jajce Municipality was displaced within the Federation during the war.
According to the 1991 census, Vitez Municipality had 27,729 inhabitants, of which l 2,679 (or 45.7%) were Croat; 11,471 (or 41.4%) were Bosniak-Muslim; 1,500 or (5.4%) were Serbs and 2,076 (or 7.5) were "others." We do not have data on the number of inhabitants currently living in the municipality.
www.bihfedomb.org /eng/reports/1997/report.htm   (8237 words)

  
 Read about Jajce at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Jajce and learn about Jajce here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
1463, Jajce was taken by the Ottomans but was retaken the same year.
1525, Jajce became the last Bosnian town to fall to the Ottoman rule.
Jajce gained prominence during the Second World War because it hosted the second convention of the
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Jajce   (410 words)

  
 Spasimo Jajce- Save Jajce
Peticija "Spasimo Jajce" je dio Jajce Portala, (ne)oficijelnog portala grada Jajca, čiji je osnovni cilj pokušati pomoći gradu i promijeniti svijest ljudi i vratiti mu bar malo od prijašnjeg sjaja.
which main goal is to help Jajce and change the way of thinking, mentality of people living there so that we jointly try to improve the situation of the town and living conditions for those in Jajce.
This is message to all former and present inhabitants of Jajce but also to all people that love this town, to sign the petitons and help us, help Jajce.
www.ipetitions.com /campaigns/For_Jajce   (708 words)

  
 1997 Human Rights Reports: Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Municipal elections, originally slated to take place concurrently with the 1996 national and provincial elections, were postponed until September 1997 because of widespread fraud in registering Serb voters.
In addition, as in the case of Jajce (see Section l.a.), there were a number of cases in which returnees were subsequently forced to leave their homes under threat, although in some cases external intervention succeeded in returning those evicted to their homes.
Municipal elections were originally scheduled to take place at the same time as the 1996 national and provincial elections.
www.usemb.se /human/human97/bosniahe.html   (9275 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina: Floods - OCHA-01: 26-Apr-04
A difficult situation has been reported in the municipalities of Bihac and Kljuc, where the level of the River Una was 512 cm.
In Travnik municipality, 100 houses were flooded and in the center of the town, the River Lasva was so high that traffic over one bridge was closed.
Although some municipalities have already proclaimed the state of emergency, the Government, during its session held on 12 April, decided not to do it as human lives were not endangered.
www.cidi.org /disaster/04a/ixl63.html   (934 words)

  
 S/1997/694
In Jajce, the Task Force investigated the Croat police response to acts of intimidation and violence against Bosniac returnees to the Jajce municipality.
The Office devoted considerable effort to the Open Cities Initiative, which aims at encouraging cities or municipalities where reconciliation between ethnic communities is possible to declare publicly their willingness to allow minority groups to return to their former homes and to participate as full members of the community.
Other cities and municipalities are being actively considered and may be recognized as open in the near future.
blue.butler.edu /~auchter/modelun/docs/4.html   (4458 words)

  
 NATO/SFOR : Transcript of Press Briefing, 4 Aug. 1997
The UNIPTF has commenced an investigation into the role of the local police on the events in Jajce since there are indications that police may have been involved in some of the incidents.
The municipal authorities and the leadership of the entities must be held responsible for these outrageous actions over the weekend in Jajce.
The amount of broadcast time and print space allocated to the parties or candidates must be sufficient for them to communicate their messages and for the voters to inform themselves about the issues, political party or coalition positions qualifications in character of the candidates." We will enforce this rigorously.
www.nato.int /sfor/trans/1997/t970804a.htm   (5125 words)

  
 United Nations Human Rights Field Operation in the former Yugoslavia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
On 1-3 August 1997, Croat residents in Jajce staged demonstrations to protest the return of Bosniak refugees and displaced persons (DPs) to a number of villages in the municipality, which have been predominantly inhabited by Croats since 1995.
It concluded that the officials from the ruling party (SDS), local police and municipal authorities created and distributed forged residency documents to potential voters, in particular DPs, to enable them to vote in Brcko rather than in their pre-war municipalities.
In the HDZ-controlled municipality of Jajce (Fed), the EASC found that the local authorities, including the police, participated in the creation of false documentation for displaced persons to allow them to vote in Jajce and subsequently struck the first three HDZ candidates off the party list.
www.unhchr.ch /html/menu2/5/ex_yug/yug_pr5.htm   (6219 words)

  
 crm3
In all municipalities of the ethnically mixed Neretva and Central Bosnia Cantons, Bosniac and Croat police officers are patrolling together.
After the results of the municipal elections were announced, IPTF worked with OSCE and local authorities to develop security plans for inaugural sessions of the municipal assemblies.
Following the major investigation into the Croat police response to acts of intimidation against Bosniac returnees to the Jajce municipality in August 1997, the Chief and Deputy Chief of Police of Jajce were removed from their positions and disciplinary proceedings against them and eight other officers are in progress.
www.brad.ac.uk /acad/confres/monitor/crm3.html   (18818 words)

  
 Jajce International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In cooperation with CCS (Common Cause Switzerland) and the handball club Jajce, the Citizen Association "Youth club-Jajce" has started a project on renovation of the facilities and support of the (team-) handball club in Jajce.
On 23 February 2004 IOM signed a contract between a BiH national residing in Greece and Jajce Municipality for the on-line concultancy project.
They are placed under the picture of Jajce, on the cover.
www.jajce.info   (465 words)

  
 SFOR Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Media Summary
Mato Crnoja, Head of the Jajce Municipality Civil Protection, and Lt Remko Kolier of SFOR Novi Travnik Base are two key men in Operation Harvest 2003 in the area of the Jajce Municipality.
Yesterday, they spoke with journalists about the good results achieved during a three-day operation of collecting weapons, ammunition and explosive devices.
Illegally possessed weapons and other materiel were collected at three check-points set up for this purpose, or were handed in to joint patrols making rounds through streets, villages and hamlets in the municipality area.
www.nato.int /sfor/media/2003/ms030818.htm   (1853 words)

  
 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Most of approximately 3,500 displaced persons from Jajce, who have been living in Brcko since 1995, have expressed the readiness for the return to Jajce.
He stressed that the main reasons for weak results in the return to Jajce is the impossibility of employment of returnees.
The Municipal Assembly two years ago allocated 125 plots free-of-charge to the Serb refugees in Kotorsko to build houses.
www.unhcr.ba /press/dd/280302.htm   (890 words)

  
 IN DEFENCE OF THE RIGHTLESS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The last Bosnian king, Stjepan Tomašević, is murdered in the city of Jajce.
- 12th - parish priest of Glamoč (Glamoč municipality) Zvonimir Matijević arrested by members of the Knin corps and taken to Knin where, although totally innocent, he is tortured.
- heavily damaged parish church in the village of Sokoline, district church in the villages of Orahova and Rujevica and the presbytery in the village of Sokoline (all in the Kotor Varoš municipality)
www.biskupija-banjaluka.org /obespravljeni/english/XI_pog.htm   (7224 words)

  
 Commentary: Jajce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
"It's true that we haven't fought each other, but we liberated this land for us." These are the words of one of the local politicians in Jajce after the intervention by the mediator for the Federation (C. Schiling) who demanded the return of Bosniaks to Jajce.
Before the war, Bosniaks were a relative majority in the municipality (38% with respect to 35% Croats).
What kind of agreement is in force in Jajce, so that Bosniaks cannot return there, even though "we hadn't fought each other" there (and what if we had?)?
www.ex-yupress.com /oslob/oslob30.html   (403 words)

  
 HIC - Knjige
- the district church in the village of Gornje Civcije (Banja Luka municipality) - damaged and looted
- 12th - parish priest of Glamoc (Glamoc municipality) Zvonimir Matijevic arrested by members of the Knin corps and taken to Knin where, although totally innocent, he is tortured.
- 25th - on orders from municipal authorities, parish priest and dean of Mrkonjic Grad, Adolf Visaticki evicted from his presbytery which was used for religious services subsequent to the destruction of the parish church and parish Caritas premises
www.hic.hr /books/indefence/chronicle.htm   (3905 words)

  
 The Centre for Peace in the Balkans - Analysis, March 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This was the incident that crystallized the Wall Street Journal into exposing terrorism in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
While the investigative organs were trying-in-absentia Hisham Diab (born in Egypt, but a Bosnian citizen), Ebu Hamza Karray Kamel Bin Ali (born on November 16th, 1966 in Tunisia), Elvedin Kokic (born in 1974 or 1975 in Kokici, in the Jajce municipality), and Abdul Hadi al-Gahtani.
The only person who was in prison was Haris Dautovic, who seems to have admitted that he took part in these criminal activities.
www.balkanpeace.org /our/our12.shtml   (2472 words)

  
 2004058.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Vitez, Bugojno, Jajce, Gornji Vakuf, and Donji Vakuf.
Thousands of homes flooded, several villages cut off in Bosnia.
10,000 hectares of land and 10 villages inundated in Srbac municipality.
www.dartmouth.edu /~floods/2004058.html   (73 words)

  
 SEE TV Exchanges
When you look at the size of our municipality, I think that we have suffered the greatest war destruction in the whole of Bosnia-Herzegovina.”
The reconstruction of Jezero was kick-started by ECHO in 1998.
“The economy of the Jajce municipality used to employ the entire population here.
www.seetv-exchanges.com /transcripts/2004/01/2004-01-09.htm   (3210 words)

  
 Association of Election Officials in BiH
AEOBiH has a record of substantial accomplishments in numerous democracy and election activities it has been conducting since 1999.
These programs include training of polling station committee members, voter information and education, voter registration and re-registration, and education of Municipal Election Commission (MEC) members and political parties about various aspects of the BiH Election Law and election process through a series of roundtable meetings in AEOBiH sections throughout the country.
Should you consider financialy supporting the AEOBiH or a particular project, please use the following bank accounts, or contact us directly!
www.aeobih.com.ba /fundraising.htm   (99 words)

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