SARAJEVO (Bosnia-Herzegovina): Bosnians are electing local councils and mayors in 136 municipalities throughout the country. The results of Sunday’s voting are expected to show whether the winners of the general elections in 2010 will be punished for not having formed a government for 15 months after they were elected.

The elections have also turned into a battle for the eastern town of Srebrenica where at the end of the 1992-95 war, Bosnian Serb forces killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys and expelled the rest of the Muslim population.

The expelled could vote in Srebrenica although they lived elsewhere, but new rules say only those who reside in the town can vote there. Muslim Bosniaks fear Serbs will now win in Srebrenica.—AP