MZ Centar 2 (Banja Luka)

Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republika Srpska / Banja Luka
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Mjesna zajednica Centar.
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Coordinates:   44°46'29"N   17°11'19"E

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  • Good Bye FBiH!
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  • During the 1990s, the city underwent considerable changes when the Bosnian war broke out. Upon the declaration of Bosnian-Herzegovinian independence and establishment of Republika Srpska, Banja Luka became the de facto center of Serbs nazi entity's politics and became the scene of much of the most severe and systematic "ethnic cleansing" underway in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosniaks, Croats, Romas, and other non-Serbs were "cleansed" through systematic persecution that included torture, murder, rape, beatings, harassment, de jure discrimination, intimidation, expulsion from homes, confiscation of property, bombing of businesses, dismissal from work, outlawing of all scripts except the Cyrillic in public institutions, and the destruction of cultural objects such as mosques and Catholic churches. Many were forced to leave their homes behind and were taken to the nearby concentration camps established by the Radovan Karadžić's Serb authorities, such as Manjača, Trnopolje and Omarska. Bosniak and Bosnian Croat employees of TV and radio stations as well as of most newspapers were dismissed and replaced by Bosnian Serbs.
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