“Turn in your machine-gun and win a scooter”

“Turn in your machine-gun and win a scooter”

All those who decide to hand over weapons left from the country's 1992-1995 war may win a scooter or any of numerous home appliances, the UNDP said.

Loads of weapons were left behind across Bosnia-Herzegovina after the 1992-1995 war, posing a constant danger to security.

Since the end of the war, hundreds of people have been accidentally killed by illegally held weapons.

The weapons left from the war have also been often used as a tool in family disputes or as instrument in ethnic-related incidents, such as last month in the southern city of Mostar, where a Bosnian Croat fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a local mosque.