BOSNIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY IGNORED IN SERB REPUBLIC
Onasa - March 1, 2003

Banja Luka, 1 March: The BiH Bosnia-Hercegovina Independence Day - 1 March is not being celebrated in the Republika Srpska RS - Bosnian Serb Republic and most of its politicians and citizens believe that it is being marked only in the part of the Federation with the Bosniak Muslim majority...

Most people in the RS does not even know that 1 March is the BiH Independence Day, while the officials believe that it more symbolizes the war that followed the referendum on BiH independence, held on 29 February and 1 March 1992.

Source: Onasa news agency web site, Sarajevo, in English 1 Mar 03

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