Bosnians vote in polls haunted by nationalist rivalries


  • World
  • Sunday, 07 Oct 2018

A man casts his ballot during presidential and parliamentary elections at a polling centre in a school in Crkvice near Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina October 7, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnians began voting on Sunday to decide whether their country will pursue a path towards European Union membership and NATO integration or sink deeper into ethnic strife and further fragmentation.

More than two decades after a war in which 100,000 died, leading Serb, Croat and Muslim Bosniak parties campaigned on nationalist tickets, reviving wartime pledges in programmes that failed to offer any clear economic or political visions.

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