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Bosnian Serbs say they will refuse to recognise the new census figures as the basis of power sharing. (Photo: World Bank Photo Collection)

Tensions soar as Bosnia is shown to be Muslim country

Representatives of the Serbian entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina refuse to recognise a census showing that Bosnian Muslims now constitute a majority of the country’s population.

The census was made in 2013, but results were published on Thursday (30 June) after a lengthy discussion on methodology.

Serbs claim that about 200,000 Muslim people included in the census actually live abroad.

The EU’s statistics office Euros...

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