PRESS
December 1, 2000
HOUSES TO REPLACE TENTS
The President of the Association of Refugees and Displaced Persons in BH
Mirhunisa Zukic claims that in BH about 30,000 citizens who started
returning to their houses, are living under tents or in ruins. The Office of
the High Representative of the International Community in BH promised
assistance in order to enable the people to wait for winter in
pre-fabricated houses that are to replace the tents.
The local authorities in Bijeljina and Janja (Republika Srpska -
northeastern Bosnia) issued 1,244 decisions on return of property to pre-war
owners, mainly Bosniaks. 940 owners entered their property. In a
co-operation with the department of the Office of the High Representative
(OHR), a list was made for evictions of Serb families who are unlawfully
occupying someone else's property.
The Department for Refugees and Displaced persons in Bratunac (Republika
Srpska - northeastern Bosnia) passed decisions and entered into possession
165 pre-war Bosniak owners of houses and apartments. The apartments were not
as yet moved in by any of the owners. The local authorities deem that the
reason for that lies in a bad economic situation in that municipality.
The Conference of the Ministers of Internal Affairs of the Federal German
Countries allowed to traumatised refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina to
stay there for two more years. This refers to physically and physhically
most volnurable categories out of the remaining 38,000 refugees from Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
Source:
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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