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Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Tensions

Jul 21, 2009 | 12:29 GMT

Summary

A brawl in Mostar, a town in southern Bosnia, left a prominent Wahhabi leader dead and several other people injured July 15. Bosnia is already a hot spot for interethnic violence due to its cultural diversity and simmering social unrest stemming from the economic crisis; the July 15 brawl shows that intraethnic conflict is also a possibility.

The recent attack in Mostar illustrates that as social unrest increases due to the economic crisis, intraethnic violence is possibility. (With STRATFOR map)...

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