Ozren

Relatives of the victims, local residents and politicians were among hundreds of people who gathered on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the massacre in the Kapija area of Tuzla, known as the 'crime against Tuzla's youth' - one of the deadliest attacks on civilians during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A shrine has reappeared in Banja Luka's central Krajina Square - candles, flowers and a wooden carving of a clenched fist next to photographs of a 21 year-old student who died three years ago this month in this northern Bosnian town.

The 25th anniversary of the shelling of the Kapija area of Tuzla by the Bosnian Serb Army was marked on Monday with the laying of flowers at the cemetery where most of the 71 mainly young people killed in May 1995 are buried, which was due to be followed by the symbolic sounding of an air-raid siren in the evening.

Scores of people joined a rally in Tuzla on Wednesday to protest about the recent publication in Serbia of the book 'Tuzla Gate - A Stage-Managed Tragedy', which claims that Bosnian Serb forces did not shell the town and kill 71 people on May 25, 1995.

Belgrade Higher Court has been waiting since April for the results of tests to determine whether Novak Djukic, the wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb Army's Ozren Tactical Group, can appear in court, again delaying the long-running proceedings in the case, BIRN has learned.

The Serbian Defence Ministry hosted a promotional event on Tuesday evening for a new book that claims to prove that Bosnian Serb forces were not responsible for the Tuzla Gate massacre in which 71 people died on May 25, 1995, contradicting the facts established by the Bosnian state court.

The remains of three people, believed to be Serbs who were killed in the village of Vozuca in 1995, have been exhumed on Mount Ozren in the Zavidovici municipality in central Bosnia.

The municipality of Sjenica has nominated the technology of preparing the famous Sjenica cottage cheese for the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.

Sjenica is a town located on the Pester karst plateau in southwestern Serbia.

One person died and another was seriously injured when a small plane crashed on Mt. Ozren in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the klix.ba website is reporting.

"Rescuers are headed toward the scene, more information will be known during the day," the officer on duty at the Public Security Center in the town of Doboj said on Thursday afternoon.