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BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: GRBAVICA RALLY

(7 Dec 1995) English/Nat More then three-thousand people from a Serb-controlled suburb of Sarajevo have protested against plans to put them under the rule of their former enemies - the Muslims and Croats. The Grbavica rally is probably the last on its kind before a referendum of Sarajevo's Serbs on the Dayton peace deal is held next Tuesday (Dec 12). Many Serbs fear they will be expelled from their homes if the city becomes united. At least three thousand Serbs - the organisers said five thousand - came to the Serb end of the so-called 'Bridge of Brotherhood and Unity'. They were protesting at plans to put them under Bosnian government control. Under the U-S sponsored peace deal - the Serb-controlled suburbs of Sarajevo will be reunited with the government side of the city - whether the current residents like it or not. The rally was very emotional and noisy - the organisers wanted to make sure that people in the other half of the city heard them. Nationalist songs and rock music blared out across the crowd. Radivoje Jovljevic held up a photo of his eight-year old son Srdjan (Ser-jan) who was killed on his doorstep by a sniper in 1992. Before the war began this part of town - called Grbavica - was mostly populated by Muslims. But virtually all of them were expelled in 1992. The rally had a simple message - the people here don't want to live under Bosnian government control - they fear they will be evicted and abused. They carried placards saying "Our roots are here" and "This is our land" to emphasise their claims. An American flag was destroyed - showing the crowd's anger at the role of the United States in forcing a peace agreement on the Bosnian Serbs. Speakers at the rally scorned the idea that they would be safe in a united city. SOUNDBITE: (English) "He says that his police can guarantee our lives." SUPER CAPTION: Serb Resident One member of the crowd explained why he was at the rally. SOUNDBITE: (English) "These people here in Serb Sarajevo want just to stay in their home town. Nothing else. To live in peace to live in their home town where we lived before." SUPER CAPTION: VOXPOP The rally showed one thing - a peace deal may have been agreed between governments but at the grass-roots there's a lot of work still to do. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...