BHRT

"From that moment on, and for a long time after that, I did not know what was light or what was dark, with whom I was speaking or what I was doing, it was all mechanical," says Fahrudin Kucuk in the documentary film 'Lakonoga' ('Light-Footed'), which is dedicated to his daughter, Aida, the first child to be killed in Sarajevo at the beginning of 1992-95 Bosnian war.

Marko Radoja, editor-in-chief of Bosnian public broadcaster BHRT, said he received more than 200 threats after telling TV presenters not to wear flower symbols to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide anniversary.

Bosnia's main broadcaster BHRT may close down altogether, experts and journalists warn, as the financial woes that have plagued the broadcaster for years already continue to worsen.

BHRT director Belmin Karamehmedovic told local news portal Klix on Wednesday that because of rapidly falling revenues, staff now have no health insurance, and their salaries are being paid late.

The bank accounts of the Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BHRT, could be blocked any day, due to the accumulated debt of Bosnia's main public broadcaster.

Officials warn that this could disrupt the broadcasting of both BHRT and the main broadcaster in Bosnia's Federation entity, Radio and Television of BiH Federation, RTVFBiH.

Bosnia's three state and entity radio and television stations risk going off air as political quarrels and conflicting views about their role block the passage of legislation needed to provide them with money.