ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Bosnian Serbs who left Sarajevo for the Republika Srpska (RS), specifically the municipality of Pale. In Republika Srpska, the hegemonic claims of the international community and of Serb nationalists have enabled different kinds of agency to be realized. The international community that Bosnian Serbs had legitimate claims to self-determination and statehood; cultural and political codes that were meaningful to an international public embedded in nation-states were deliberately used. People complained about a series of political decisions, from the indictments issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to the policies encouraging minority return and property restitution. Crossing the Inter-Entity Boundary Line (IEBL) was made easier by the policies of the High Representative, especially the adoption of a common currency and license plates for all of Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as the creation of a unified public transport system in the Sarajevo area.
