SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Bosnian Serbs overwhelmingly approved a referendum for a statehood holiday, after courts banned the proposal.
Initial results of Sunday's referendum indicated more than 99 percent of voters approved the proposal, which calls for a Jan. 9 holiday. The vote was conducted in Republika Srpska, or the Serb Republic, a heavily Serb region in the republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The country's Constitutional Court ruled the holiday is discriminatory against non-Serbians.