2016 in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Events in the year 2016 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Incumbents

• President – Bakir Izetbegović, Mladen Ivanić, and Dragan Čović
• Prime Minister – Denis Zvizdić

Events

February

• 15 February – Bosnia and Herzegovina formally applies to join the European Union.[1]

March

• 24 March – Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia find former President of the Republika Srpska Radovan Karadžić guilty of committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Bosnia during the Bosnian War and is sentenced to 40 years in prison. Karadžić is found to be "criminally responsible" for the Srebrenica massacre.[2][3]
• 31 March – Former Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and nationalist politician, Vojislav Šešelj, is acquitted of all nine charges of committing atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia during the early 1990s by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.[4]

June

• 30 June – The country officially releases its first census report since the end of the Bosnian War after multiple delays, showing that the country had lost one fifth of its population from 4.4 million to 3.5 million between then and 2013.[5]

July

• 11 July – The 127 people who were massacred in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 and were subsequently discovered in mass graves are buried at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial following a funeral. For the first time, Bosnian Serbs were not welcome to attend the ceremony.[6]

August

• 5 – 21 August – The country competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. A total of 11 athletes represented the country in athletics, judo, shooting, swimming, and tennis.[7]

September

• 20 September – The European Union's 28 member states formally accept the country's membership application. The European Commission later must determine whether the country meets the criteria to join the union, a process that is expected to take a year.[8]

October

• 2 October – In municipal elections, 30,000 candidates competed in the election for 2,835 local councillors, 301 city councillors, 131 municipal mayors and 12 city mayors.[9]

Deaths

Jadranka Stojaković

• 16 February – Srđan Dizdarević, diplomat and journalist (b. 1952).[10]

• 20 February – Muhamed Mujić, footballer (b. 1933).[11]

• 3 May – Jadranka Stojaković, singer-songwriter (b. 1950).[12]

• 12 May – Božidar Matić, politician (b. 1937).

• 8 August – Željko Kopanja, newspaper editor (b. 1954).[13]
• 30 August – Josip Bukal, footballer (b. 1945).[14]

References

1. "Bosnia applies to join European Union". BBC News. 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
2. "Karadzic Sentenced To 40 Years". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
3. Bowcott, Julian Borger Owen (2016-03-24). "Radovan Karadžić sentenced to 40 years for Srebrenica genocide". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
4. Bowcott, Owen Bowcott (2016-03-31). "Serb nationalist Vojislav Šešelj acquitted of war crimes at The Hague". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
5. "Bosnian Census Shows Country Lost Fifth Of Population". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
6. "Srebrenica buries 127 victims of massacre, Serbs absent over genocide denial". Reuters. 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
7. "Eleven athletes from Bosnia and Herzegovina to compete in Rio". Business Standard. 26 July 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
8. Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "EU accepts Bosnia and Herzegovina's membership application | DW | 20.09.2016". DW.COM. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
9. Dodik's referendum – opening Pandora's box in the Balkans?, IFIMES, 17 September 2016
10. "Bosnie-Herzégovine in memoriam Srđan Dizdarević". courrierdesbalkans.fr (in French). 16 February 2016. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
11. "Bivši igrač Dinama Muhamed Mujić preminuo u 83. godini". 24sata.hr (in Croatian). 21 February 2016. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
12. "Preminula Jadranka Stojaković". blic.rs (in Bosnian). 4 May 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
13. "RS publisher and journalists Zeljko Kopanja dies". B92.net. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
14. "Preminuo Josip Bukal, legenda Željezničara" (in Croatian). Večernji list.hr. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2016.

External links

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