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Violent protests break out in Bosnia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26086857

Bosnia-Hercegovina protests break 

out in violence

Journalist Sead Numanovic says "poverty and injustice" are fuelling the protests

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Demonstrators in Bosnia-Hercegovina have set fire to government buildings, in the worst unrest since the end of the 1992-95 war.
Hundreds of people have been injured in three days of protests over high unemployment and perceived inability of politicians to improve the situation.
Police used rubber bullets and tear gas to quell unrest in the capital Sarajevo and the northern town of Tuzla.
Black smoke could be seen gushing from the presidency building in Sarajevo.
Sarajevo-based newspaper Dnevni Avaaz says police used water to disperse the protesters who were throwing stones at the presidency building. There were also reports of an attempted storming of the office.
The fire brigade are unable to reach the burning building, the paper reports. A total of 13 fire service teams have been deployed.
A protester stands near a fire set in front of a government building in Tuzla February 7, 2014Protesters in Tuzla vented their anger on a local government building
Bosnian protestors try to storm a local government building in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, on February 7, 2014. In Sarajevo, demonstrators threw stones at government buildings
Bosnian policemen try to hold off protestors in their attempt to storm of local government building in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo (7 February 2014)Police try to hold off protesters as fires rage in Sarajevo
Protesters storm a local government building in the northern Bosnian town of Tuzla on February 7, 2014Tuzla protesters also hurled missiles at a government building
On Thursday, clashes between police and demonstrators in Tuzla injured more than 130 people, mostly police officers.

Analysis

This appears to be a case of simmering frustration boiling over.
Two decades on from the siege of Sarajevo, Bosnia has fallen off the international radar - and its people feel they have been forgotten. And not just by the wider world, but their own government.
The administration is split along ethnic lines - and seems incapable of agreeing on anything but its own above-average pay packets.
This has left the rest of Bosnia's citizens struggling to move forward.
Even practical matters like national identity cards get mired in ethnic politics. At one point last year, desperate mothers formed a human chain around the main government building, begging for identity cards for their babies.
The economic situation is desperate. Four in ten are unemployed - in large part due to a series of botched privatisations.
That is what sparked the initial protests in Tuzla - but empathy with their cause brought demonstrators out in towns across Bosnia.
"People protest because they are hungry, because they don't have jobs. We demand the government resign," Nihad Karac, a construction worker, told the AFP.
About 40% of Bosnians are unemployed.
The unrest began in Tuzla earlier in the week, with protests over the closure and sale of factories which had employed most of the local population.
Demonstrators in other towns, including Mostar, Zenica and Bihac, supported the Tuzla workers and criticised the government for failing to tackle the rampant unemployment.
Hundreds of people also gathered in support in the Bosnian Serb capital, Banja Luka.
Local media are reporting that the premiers of two of Bosnia's cantons - Sead Causevic of Tuzla canton and Munib Husejnagic of Zenica-Doboj canton - are to resign.
'Exasperation'
The BBC's Balkans correspondent Guy De Launey says exasperation at years of inertia and incompetence in Bosnia is at the root of the protests.
Bosnia-Hercegovina is made up of two separate entities: a Bosniak-Croat Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina, and the Bosnian Serb Republic, or Republika Srpska, each with its own president, government, parliament, police and other bodies.
The complex administrative framework and deep divisions have led to political stagnation and vulnerability to corruption.
The current chairman of the Bosnian presidency, Zeljko Komsic, said that politicians were to blame for the protests.
The problem "has been accumulating for several years, but the situation now escalated," he told FTV.
He was also quoted as saying he would be calling an urgent meeting of the top leadership.
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