Hadžići

Hadžići Хаџићи
Basic data
State :	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity :	Federation of BiH
Canton :	Sarajevo
Coordinates :	43 ° 49 '  N , 18 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 49 '25 "  N , 18 ° 13' 16"  E
Height :	90  m. i. J.
Area :	273  km²
Residents :	24,979 (2013)
Population density :	91 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	+387 (0) 33
Postal code :	71240
Structure and administration (as of 2012)
Community type:	Općina
Mayor :	Hamdo Ejubović ( SDA )
Postal address :	Hadželi 114 71 240 Hadžići
Website :	www.hadzici.ba

Hadžići ( Serbian - Cyrillic Хаџићи ) is a municipality southwest of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

geography

The community is located west of the Sarajevo polje on Magistral Road 17 Sarajevo– Konjic . The new A1 motorway , which is to lead to Mostar in future, and the Sarajevo – Ploče railway line also cross the municipality. All traffic connections between Sarajevo and Mostar lead over the pass Ivan Sedlo ( 955  m ) on the municipal border between Hadžići and Konjic, which is also the historical border between Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Neighboring municipalities are Kreševo and Kiseljak in the north, Ilidža in the east, Trnovo (FBiH) in the southeast and Konjic in the south and west.

Bombing by NATO with uranium ammunition

During the Bosnian War , the city was bombed by NATO at the beginning of September 1995 , as there was an arms depot of the Vojska Republike Srpske there. Over 3 tons of uranium ammunition fell on Hadžići and the area of Han Pijesak . After the Serbian army found radioactive levels in the city that were 3000 times higher, the population - around 7000 people - was evacuated to Bratunac . As a result of the use of depleted uranium , many of the former residents died of consequential damage after the war; the numbers vary depending on the source. In his film Deadly Dust, Frieder Wagner assumes 1112 deaths from cancer by the end of 2000, while Svetlana Jovanović, doctor at the Hadžići health center, cites the number of 650 deaths from late 1995 to mid-2004, of which 40 died of cancer or leukemia. Dr. Slavko Zdale, doctor and scientist, noted a five to six-fold increase in leukemia cases in the region compared to the time before the war in Yugoslavia. The UNEP denied in 2002 any health risk from depleted uranium. According to information from SFOR, German soldiers found less radiation in the complex that was bombarded in 1995 than normally occurs in the ground.

traffic

Hadžići lies on the Sarajevo – Ploče railway line of the Željeznice Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine (ŽFBH). In 1891, with the opening of the narrow - gauge Narentabahn, the village was connected to the railway network. 1963 to 1966 the Yugoslav State Railways (JŽ) re-routed the line and converted it to standard gauge.

Web links

• Official website of the city

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ingo Schuler, Eleonora Hoff, Judith Funke, Ines Abraham: Depleted uranium: the creeping death after the US bombs
2. ↑ Alix Kroeger: Depleted uranium: Bosnia tests start , BBC news of January 25, 2001, accessed December 16, 2010
3. ↑ NATO sees no cancer risk from uranium projectiles , Handelsblatt online from January 16, 2001, accessed on December 16, 2010