(2 Feb 1996) English/Nat
The Bosnian government has FRIDAY moved all its heavy weaponry away from the centre of the capital Sarajevo. As the tanks left, hundreds of citizens lined up to cross a bridge about to be handed back to the Bosnian government.
Meanwhile fifty of Muslim refugees from Tuzla are heading to Sarajevo to protest at what the claim is a lack of information about missing relatives.
The Bosnian Government on Friday complied with the Dayton Peace Agreement and moved their heavy weapons from the center of Sarajevo to its outskirts.
Now both sides have moved all weapons out of Sarajevo's center.
While the tanks moved out, so did fifty two women and children from Tuzla.
They are headed for Sarajevo to formally lodge a complaint to the Bosnian Government about their family members who are still missing.
These women and children have sought refuge in Tuzla and neighbouring towns since the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica fell to the Serbs last July.
In Tuzla more angry refugees gathered outside the government building shouting their disappointment that they were not going to Sarajevo as well.
In Sarajevo, however, families and friends are being reunited at the Unity Bridge.
More than one hundred Sarajevo residents queued to cross to Grbavica - a previously Serb suburb due to be handed back to the Bosnian Government.
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I was living in Grbavica, my old life. I am doctor. Was working in Grbavica and after start war I must go in another side with my family.
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Many of these people have not seen relatives and friends for more than four years.
They were forced to move at the beginning of the war.
Also arriving in Sarajevo on Friday was the Italian President, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.
He is on a one-day visit to Italian troops in the NATO peace force and will be holding talks with Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic.
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