Fractured state: why old tensions die hard in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

30 years after war ravaged Bosnia and Herzegovina, secessionist threats by the country’s Serbian entity have raised fears of renewed violence. Euronews' Valérie Gauriat travelled to the country to see how serious the current tensions actually are. A few weeks after returning from Ukraine, with most foreign media having scaled down their presence in the war-torn country, I was asked to dig into the conflict's potential knock-on effects in other parts of Europe. There were fears that inter-ethnic violence could spill over into the Western Balkans, most likely igniting first in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These concerns had been fuelled by repeated threats by the political leadership of the country’s Serbian entity to separate from the rest of the nation’s state institutions. Ambitions which have been repeatedly met with Russia's support. As I landed in Sarajevo, the country’s capital, I warmed at the thought of once again encountering communities that I had seen go through many changes and challenges during my reports over the years, following the end of the three-year war there in 1995. READ MORE : https://www.euronews.com/2022/07/22/f... Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/euronews?su... Watch our LIVE here:    / euronews   Subscribe to our thematic channels: NoComment: https://www.youtube.com/c/nocommenttv... Euronews Green: http://bit.ly/2sMsaDB Euronews Next: https://www.youtube.com/c/EuronewsNex... Euronews Travel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EuronewsTra... Euronews is available on YouTube in 12 languages:    / euronewsnetwork   #EuronewsWitness #bosnia #srebrenitsa #srebrenica #genocide #Serbia #Serbian #massacre #Balkans #sarajevo