Protesters have set fire to government buildings and fought with police on the third day of Bosnia’s worst civil unrest since its 1992-95 war.<br /><br />In the northern town of Tuzla, masked youths, many sporting football insignia, stormed and torched the seat of the local authority while a section of the presidency building in the capital Sarajevo was also set alight with a flare thrown through a window.<br /><br />The protests have spread across the country. <br /><br />Police used water cannon as demonstrators who had already attacked local government headquarters in Sarajevo turned on the Bosnian presidency building.<br /><br />Anger over massive unemployment and political inertia triggered the disturbances, starting in Tuzla, which has been hit hard by factory closures.<br /><br />Many claim authorities have stood by idly as several state firms collapsed after privatisation.<br /><br />Well over 100 people, many of them police officers, have been injured in Tuzla alone.<br /><br />The civil unrest is unprecedented in postwar Bosnia, where Serbs, Croats and Muslim Bosniaks have tolerated political stagnation for years rather than risk a return to conflict.
