On April 15, the Srebrenica Municipal Assembly decided to change the names of the streets in the town and in the village of Skelani in the Srebrenica municipality. This decision has now been implemented and the Maršala Tita street is now the Republika Srpska Street.
The Mihajlo Bjelakovica Square, named after the partisan hero who died in the fight against the Ustasha in 1944 in this city, was renamed the Republika Srpska Square.
The Srebrenica City Park was renamed the Park of Major Kosta Todorovic (a member of the Zlatibor volunteer detachment during World War I, killed in Srebrenica in 1914), and Reufa Selmanagica Crnog Street is now the Dubrovacka Street.
The Vinogrdiste Street is changing its name to Preobrazenjska, and Milovoja Micica Street is changing its name to Gorana Zekica Street (former president of the Serb Democratic Party of Srebrenica), RSE reported earlier.
Representatives of Bosniaks did not participate in the selection of new names, and in the assembly, which is responsible for naming streets, squares and parts of populated areas, the majority are Serb political representatives.
Most of the street names in Srebrenica were in force until 1996. That year, by the decision of the local government which was made by Serb councillors, it changed all the names. Six years later, the old street names were returned by the decision of the new parliamentary majority.
Last week, the mayor of the municipality of Srebrenica, Mladen Grujicic, said that negotiations are being conducted within the municipal and party bodies to launch an initiative to change the name of Srebrenica.
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