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Ethnic Tensions: Bosnia

This coming Saturday, voters in Bosnia go to the polls as part of the effort to put their war-torn country back together. They'll be choosing men and women to represent them in a collective presidency, a house of representatives, assemblies for both the Muslim-Croat federation and Serb Republic, and councils for each canton. Linda talks about the upcoming election with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in the northwest Bosnian city of Banja Luka ((BAHN-yuh LOO-kuh)). Banja Luka is home to the opposition parties who will contend for the vote with the nationalist party running the Serb Republic.

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