Good News on Implementation of Property Laws in Bratunac and Foca

The implementation of the property law in Bosnia is making remarkable
progress in the municipalities of Bratunac and Foca, scenes of some
of the most brutal "ethnic cleansing" in 1992-1995 and infamous as
strongholds of hard-line nationalists in the years since Dayton. It's
an illustration of the extent to which enforcement of the rule of law
can make a difference.
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10/10/03
DNEVNI AVAZ (PB, S)
Daily Voice, Bosnian national daily from Sarajevo

Implementation of Property Rights in Bratunac

The implementation of property rights in the Bratunac municipality
will be completed by the end of November of 2003, the Bratunac office
of the RS Ministry of Displaced Persons and Refugees confirmed. As it
was announced, some 250 temporary occupants who still live in houses
and apartments owned by Bosniaks will be evicted. (Page 9/80)
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10/10/03
GLAS SRPSKI (G, SLOGA, PG)
Serbian Voice, Serbian national daily from Banja Luka

Srbinje: "All Property Returned"

With August 30 inclusive, all property of prewar users in the
Srbinje [Foca] municipality was returned. "It means 1,048 families
received the keys of their apartments, and other property for which
1,100 requests were submitted was returned," said chief of the
Department Ministry for Refugees and DPs, Ranko Vladicic. Meanwhile,
another 18 requests were submitted for returning property, because
the deadline for submitting those requests is not limited. Four hundred
families have right to alternative accommodation in Srbinje [Foca] and
all of them received some accommodation. Facilities in Miljevina and
Livade is used for that purpose, some families have their rents paid
and hundred housing units for which their prewar owners did not submit
request for return are in function. "The municipality helped the most
in providing alternative accommodation, while the others, who were
obligated to help, did it symbolically," said Vladicic. It is hard to
say when more than 400 Serb families, who have alternative accommodation,
will be conveyed into their property and if they will have conditions
for return, because it is about families whose houses were destroyed,
and there is no donors, who would help their reconstruction. Those are
mostly elderly people, who have health problems along with social ones.
­td/vs (R. M. ­ pg 11/28)