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Srebrenica divided as ever as Serbs put up anti-EU posters
Associated Press ^ | Jun 28, 2015 11:51 AM EDT | Aida Cerkez

Posted on 06/28/2015 4:57:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Less than two weeks before the Srebrenica massacre’s 20th anniversary, Muslims and Eastern Orthodox Serbs in the Bosnian town are as divided as ever.

Serbs put up anti-European Union posters on Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s portrait on them and the words “Eastern alternative” and “Republika Srpska,” or “Serb Republic.” Most of them were plastered on the bullet-riddled walls of a warehouse in the nearby village of Kravica, where Serb forces executed Muslim Bosnians during the 1995 genocide.

Bosnia’s Muslims want the country to join the EU, while Serbs would like their half—called Republika Srpska—to secede and stay close to Russia as an independent country. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bosnia; clinton; europeanunion; eussr; nato; rop; serbia; srebrenica

1 posted on 06/28/2015 4:57:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Diversity is strength. Keep repeating that.

L


2 posted on 06/28/2015 4:58:45 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Olog-hai

Their division works for me. The Serbs fought the Islam’s 800 years ago and lost for 700 years with Islam’s foot on their necks.


3 posted on 06/28/2015 6:16:54 PM PDT by Parmy
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