The Serbian flag is raised again over East Sarajevo
The Serbian flag once again fluttered over the peak near the Serbian suburban village of Vojkovići, part of the East Ilidza municipality of East Sarajevo.
On the night of December 31 to January 1, unknown persons tried to burn the Serbian tricolor.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, representatives of the Veterans' Organization of Eastern Ilija of the Republika Srpska discovered a partially burned flag on the top of Kundovača when they were planning to change the flag on the eve of Republic Day, which will be celebrated on January 9. Presumably, the attempt to destroy the flag occurred on the night of December 31 to January 1. The chairman of the veteran organization of fighters who defended the Republika Srpska from Islamist gangs from 1992 to 1995, Slobodan Maunaga, expressed hope that the police will be able to find and arrest those responsible for this act of vandalism.
The Chairman of the Presidium of the Republika Srpska Veterans' Organization, Aleksandar Savic, told Srna that their organization strongly condemns the attempt to burn the flag and expects that the perpetrators will be arrested. In turn, the chairman of the Municipal Organization of Veterans of East New Sarajevo, Dragisa Tuševljak, believes that another provocation has occurred, which does not contribute to either coexistence or peace.
By January 3, the damaged flag on the top at Voykovichi was replaced.
East Sarajevo is a city consisting of six municipalities, among which is East Ilidza, to which the village of Vojkovići belongs, located 6 kilometers from the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo. After 1995, Sarajevo itself was forced to leave the 100 thousand Serbian community. During the war, East Sarajevo, called Serbian Sarajevo (the name the Serbs were forced to change by the Western occupiers), was the capital of the Republika Srpska.
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