Reuters reported in early July. International police initially found the illegal weapons during an inspection in Brkco. Serb nationalists refused to hand over the weapons to the unarmed monitors, but backed down after American troops were called in. The common institutions specified in the constitution have been set up. Freedom of movement has improved.
Goods move increasingly between the entities.
Some 88,000 refugees and 164,000 displaced persons returned last year. Two years ago at this time, Serbs were still shelling and strangling Bosnian civilian centers. Croats and Muslims there were initially allies against Serb nationalists. Croats drove Muslim residents out of modern west Mostar and into a besieged ghetto across the river, which was largely destroyed by months of shellfire. Western officials say the city's western sector is now controlled by criminal gangs that made fortunes from plundering Muslim homes and reselling their apartments.