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bosniaks

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Zlatan Bajunovic, whom it has sent to Nairobi, lives close to Srebrenica, where 8,000 Bosniaks were killed in 1995.

Some change may now be in the air.The war left Bosnia divided between the Serb-run Republika Srpska (RS) and the Federation, which is dominated by Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Croats.

During the Bosnian war the Omarska iron ore mine was the most infamous of the Serb-run wartime camps for Bosniaks.

It is outrageous, say Bosniaks, that a fugitive like Ratko Mladic, indicted for murdering some 8,000 Bosniaks in Srebrenica in 1995, is now in theory able to travel freely on a Serbian passport whereas the relatives of his victims cannot.Still, Bosnians and Albanians know that it is only a matter of time before they too qualify for visa-free travel.

So far only 5,137 Bosniaks have been buried.A decade ago few Bosniaks dared to venture to Srebrenica, now in the Serb half of Bosnia, to commemorate what the UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague has called an act of genocide.

In the same way that Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Holocaust, so Bosniaks see Srebrenica as a symbol of their wartime suffering.And just as the fate of the Jews in Auschwitz has always been in the background of Israeli strategic thinking, so it is clear that Srebrenica plays a similar role for Bosniaks.

Correction to this articleIN 1991 Radovan Karadzic, the then leader of the Bosnian Serbs, stood in the Bosnian parliament in Sarajevo and warned Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) that they were taking the country down the highway to hell.

(The key sticking point relates to Croat fears of being outvoted by Bosniaks).

Those Bosniaks, Croats and Kosovars who insist that Serbia has not changed will not now be persuaded.

Although most of the party's voters are Bosniaks, Mr Komsic is a Croat.

Bosniaks believe that, by blocking as much legislation as he can, Mr Dodik is following the example of Milo Djukanovic, the Montenegrin leader, when he set out to prove that the loose federation of Serbia and Montenegro could not work.

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