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Bosnian Serbs will continue to celebrate the founding day of Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb entity declared three decades ago, one of the events that led the country to a war in the 1990s that killed more than 100,000 people.
Tensions have been rising for months in Bosnia with Serbia’s political leader Milorad Dodik launching plans last month to withdraw from the country’s central institutions, including the military, judiciary and tax system.
The move brought new US sanctions, with Washington scolding it for trying to undermine the historic Dayton Peace Accords that ended the 1995 Bosnian war.
Despite the sanctions, celebrations for the national holiday continued ahead this week as municipal employees hung RS red, white and blue flags across eastern Sarajevo.
The holiday has long been considered a “provocation” by the country’s Muslim community, which was targeted by Bosnian Serb paramilitary groups just three months after RS was unilaterally created in 1992.
For the 30th anniversary, RS authorities are planning 3 days of celebrations, which will include a parade of their police forces in the Serbian capital, Banja Luka.
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