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Timeline of Bosnian and Herzegovinian history
Events in the year
2015 in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
.
Incumbents
President
–
Bakir Izetbegović
,
Mladen Ivanić
, and
Dragan Čović
Prime Minister
:
Vjekoslav Bevanda
(until March 31)
Denis Zvizdić
(from March 31)
Events
January
15 January – The country made its first appearance at the
World Men's Handball Championship
.
[
citation needed
]
April
27 April – A
Wahhabist
gunman attacked
a police station
in
Zvornik
,
Republika Srpska
,
killing one police officer
and wounding two others before being shot dead. This was the first attack of its kind in
Republika Srpska
while similar attacks have previously occurred in the
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
.
[1]
[2]
May
6 May – The counter-terrorist campaign
Operation Ruben
began in
Republika Srpska
following a shooting in
Zvornik
.
[3]
July
8 July –
Russia
vetoes
a
UN
resolution
that would have condemned the July 1995
Srebrenica massacre
of more than 8,000
Bosniaks
as a
genocide
.
[4]
11 July –
Serbian
Prime Minister
Aleksandar Vučić
is pelted with stones and other objects as he attempts to pay respects to the victims of the
Bosnian Genocide
. Vučić is a former member of the
Serbian Radical Party
, a far right anti-Islam party.
[5]
November
18 November – A gunman inside a betting shop near army barracks in
Rajlovac
,
Sarajevo
, shoots dead two
Bosnian Army
soldiers. The gunman, identified as
Salafi
extremist Enes Omeragić, later commits suicide after police surround his house.
[6]
Deaths
Main article:
deaths in 2015
Further information:
Category:2015 deaths
References
^
"Bosnia gunman 'kills police officer'
"
.
BBC News
. 2015-04-27
. Retrieved
2020-08-22
.
^
"Gunman kills Bosnian policeman in apparent Islamist attack"
.
Reuters
. 2015-04-27
. Retrieved
2020-08-22
.
^
"Bosnian police launch operation to root out radical Islamists"
. AFP. 6 May 2015
. Retrieved
8 May
2015
.
[
permanent dead link
]
^
"Russia blocks U.N. condemnation of Srebrenica as a genocide"
.
Reuters
. 2015-07-08
. Retrieved
2020-08-22
.
^
"Serbian Prime Minister Pelted With Stones at Srebrenica Ceremony"
.
Wall Street Journal
. Associated Press. 2015-07-11.
ISSN
0099-9660
. Retrieved
2020-08-22
.
^
"Two army soldiers shot dead in Bosnia shooting spree"
.
Reuters
. 2015-11-18
. Retrieved
2020-08-22
.
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