As Bosnian Serb police units paraded in East Sarajevo on Monday, marking the outlawed “Republika Srpska Day”, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital, a few kilometres away, held an academic event at the national theatre titled “January 9 – the path to genocide”.
Srebrenica genocide survivor Almasa Salihovic, 35, said while those in Bosnia’s Serb-led entity spoke about their pride in Republika Srpska (RS) as their only homeland, other Bosnians remembered their sense of grief on January 9, 1992, a day which for them “marked the path to the bloodiest years of the war”.
