18 June 2001 BANJA LUKA. The second attempt to break ground for the reconstruction of the 17th-century mosque of Ferhadija–destroyed in 1993 by Bosnian Serb extremists–was successful thanks to rigorous security measures taken by the Republika Srpska government. A crowd of several hundred mostly young rioters tried in vain to disrupt the ceremony, which was attended by a number of […]

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