Bosnian Serbs vote for ‘Statehood Day’ despite court ban

‘Bosnia’s minority Serbs have voted in favor of a controversial holiday despite the country’s highest court banning the move, raising the stakes in already tense tensions with Muslims and Croats.
Organizers of the disputed “Statehood Day” referendum said on Monday that 99.8 percent of voters wanted January 9 to be their national holiday.
The referendum, held in the semi-autonomous Republika Srpska part of Bosnia and Herzegovina with approximately one million ethnic Serbs, had been banned by the country’s highest court.’
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