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On the 24th anniversary of the beginning of 1992-95 Bosnian war, Serbian human rights activists staged a commemoration in Belgrade to honour the victims.

People in the Bosnian capital commemorated the 24th anniversary of the start of the three-and-a-half-year siege, when they were encircled and attacked by Bosnian Serb forces from 1992 to 1995.

A growing number of children attending primary and secondary school in Sarajevo are learning Turkish and Arabic as "second foreign languages" alongside those traditionally taught to Bosnian children, such as English and German, the Ministry of Culture and Education of the Canton of Sarajevo told BIRN.

Divergences on Bosnia's foreign policy priorities are growing between the Bosnian government and Republika Srpska, the country's Serb-dominated entity, experts say.

"Although Republika Srpska is just an entity inside Bosnia, they have different perceptions of their foreign policy goals," Sead Turcalo, a political sciences professor in Sarajevo, told BIRN on Monday.

Bosnians wanting to emigrate to Germany - but who do not know much German - are increasingly forging language diplomas, the Goethe institute in Sarajevo says.

Two decades after the war, Bosnian politicians still cannot agree on lyrics for the national anthem.

People in Bosnia's Federation entity flooded twitter with sarcastic messages on Wednesday after the Prime Minister of the entity, Fadil Novalic, told a press conference that they lived well and spent too much of their money on unnecessary things.

The parents said that Bosniak pupils at the primary school in Srebrenica must be given report cards where it's clearly marked that they have been attending classes in the Bosnian language, not in 'Bosniak' - and they threatened to remove their children if it doesn't happen.

A total of six Bosnian citizens suspected of having connections with Islamic State have been detained in a series of operations, media reported on Monday.

One of them was arrested in Turkey while allegedly trying to reach Syria to join Islamic State militants, Bosnian media quoted the state prosecution as saying.

The Bosnian NGO, Omladinski Demokratik Pokret (Youth Democratic Movement), is gathering signatures in an attempt to convince the authorities to halt the broadcasting of the Serbian reality TV show 'Farma' ('The Farm').