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Why is ‘Republika Srpska Day’ controversial in Bosnia? | Politics News
Serbs in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity are marking the 31st anniversary of the entity’s founding, even with a court docket ban against the event, which is fundamentally a military parade. Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court declared the January 9 “Republika Srpska Day” unlawful and unconstitutional in November 2015, stating that the celebration is discriminatory versus non-Serbs there. But Republika Srpska authorities have continued to mark the working day each and every 12 months as a general public holiday break – the 1.2 million folks who are living in the entity, for occasion, are not anticipated to do the job. Celebrations are typically held in Banja Luka, the de-facto capital of…