Bosnian Serb referendum on disputed 9 January holiday Sunday Sep 25,2016

Bosnian Serbs are voting on whether to keep 9 January as a national holiday in defiance of Bosnia's highest court. 

It has ruled the date discriminates against Muslim Bosniaks and Catholic Croats and should be changed.

Serbs declared the creation of their own state within Bosnia on 9 January 1992, fuelling an ethnic conflict in which about 100,000 people died.

Bosnia is still split along ethnic lines between the mainly-Serb entity and a Muslim-Croat federation.

The Constitutional Court, based in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, banned the referendum.

Polls opened at 07:00 local time (05:00 GMT) and will close at 19:00.

About 1.2 million people are eligible to vote.