Anyway, at that time, and without knowing how events were going to evolve, many people supporting Yugoslavia opposed pro-independence forces and, consequently, supported pro-Serbian ones, which officially fought to keep Yugoslavia as larger as possible and revert its breaking up. Brena also claimed she was only in Brčko in 1993 to rescue her parents. However, when compared side by side, the uniforms are different. The concerts went ahead as scheduled with no incidents and she claimed the uniform was from the set of a 1990 music video for her song 'Tamba Lamba', in which she wore a similar uniform while filming at a zoo in Kenya for the movie, Hajde da se volimo 3. This is why Croatian and Bosnian protesters were angered calling her a 'traitor' and četnikuša (feminine version of Chetnik, used derrogativelly in Croatia for labeling Serbs or pro-Serbian people). In the pictures, taken and published by one Serbian magazine, she appears giving support to Bosnian Serb soldiers, which were at that time involved in intense fighting against Croatian and Bosniak forces in Posavina front. The reason behind the protests were pictures allegedly shot in 1993 during the Bosnian War in which she appears wearing the uniform of the Army of Republika Srpska in the besieged town of Brčko, where she grew-up. In 2009, numerous Bosniaks and Croats protested when her concerts in Sarajevo, on May 30, and in Zagreb, on June 13, were announced. In that sense, being a Yugoslav icon, Lepa Brena has never publicly spoken about her religious beliefs, neither was seen or gave any indications of practicing any religion all that is known is that she was raised as a Sunni Muslim. In socialist Yugoslavia religions in general were an unpopular topic, and people acknolledged the religion to which belonged in relation to its family roots, but were overwelmingly non-practicioners. Several tabloids claimed that she had converted from Islam to Serbian Orthodoxy and that she had changed her name from Fahreta to Jelena. Some Bosniaks viewed her as a traitor as she was a Bosniak who sang and spoke with an Ekavian accent (which is predominantly spoken in Serbia) and she married a Serbian, Slobodan Živojinović. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, ethnic tensions which started rising in Yugoslavia and eventually led to country´s breakup, made Lepa Brena become one of main tabloid targets at the time.
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