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Bosnia: Angry Protesters Want New Govt of Experts

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 բոսնիա,ցույցեր Thousands are protesting in Bosnia for a sixth day, demanding that politicians resign and a new government of non-partisan experts be put in to address the country’s nearly 40 percent unemployment and rampant corruption.

Protesters say “overpaid” politicians are detached from the peoples’ reality and obsessed with inter-ethnic bickering decades after a 1991-95 war that killed 100,000. The crowd gathers daily in front of the presidency in Sarajevo — which they set ablaze on Friday — and other government buildings in other cities.

A banner held Monday by two elderly people claimed that one politician’s monthly salary equals four years of the average pension payment. Every fifth Bosnian now lives below the poverty line.

 

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Hundreds of bodies found in Bosnia mass grave

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Բոսնիա,մասսայական գերեզման Investigators in Bosnia have uncovered a mass grave thought to contain several hundred bodies of victims of the conflict that followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia two decades ago.

The remains are believed to be those of victims of Bosniak and Croat ethnicity from Prijedor and its surroundings, killed in the summer of 1992, according to the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The site, at Tomasica in Prijedor municipality, is one of the biggest mass graves found in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the conflict, said Boris Grubesic, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office.

As of Thursday, 231 complete bodies had been exhumed, as well as the body parts of another 112 people.

But, he added, the number found goes up by the day or even the hour.

More than 30 personal items have also been found, he said.

Excavation of the mass grave, which goes to a depth of 10 meters (33 feet), began in early September and is expected to continue into next week.

The remains are being taken to an identification center in Sanski Most, where they will remain until the forensic analysis and identification process is completed, the prosecutor’s office said.

Identification of the remains may help bring closure for the many families whose relatives vanished in the course of the conflict, which ended in 1995.