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Thu 07 Jul 2008Muslims furious at anthem and symbols adopted by Bosnian Serbs
BOSNIA:BOSNIA'S MUSLIMS are furious with the country's Serb republic for adopting an anthem and emblems that allegedly glorify Serb nationalism and undermine what precious little ethnic harmony still exists in the divided country.
The row comes at a tense time, after last week's commemoration of the 1995 Serb massacre of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica and a stand-off this week between police and Muslim women trying to visit a Serb village where their male relatives were murdered.
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