Thousands of people, many wearing masks, demonstrated Saturday against a Mass in Sarajevo for Nazi-allied soldiers and civilians killed by partisan forces in Bleiburg, Austria, at the end of World War II.
The decision to hold the Mass in Sarajevo provoked a strong backlash in a country where the memory of ethnic war in the 1990s is still fresh. It was condemned by Bosnia’s Serbian Orthodox Church, the Jewish and Muslim communities and several antifascist organizations.
