Dodik’s hometown, Laktasi, and controlled by a close political ally. The Bosnian health investigator traced those shipments to a company based in Mr. Dodik has indicated in private, diplomats say, that his primary interest is keeping state prosecutors out of his domain so as to eliminate the risk that credible reports of rampant corruption ever get seriously investigated - including the scandal over industrial oxygen for Covid patients.
envoy, adding that he was on a “dangerous and slippery road.” “He probably doesn’t really know himself where this all leads,” said Mr. Dodik’s threats are real or are mostly political theater to rally his nationalist base ahead of elections in October. Karadzic and the Bosnian Serb former commander Ratko Mladic, who have since been convicted of genocide at The Hague for the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995 and other atrocities. Dodik’s disruptive actions as proof that Bosnian Serbs should never have been allowed by the Dayton deal to hang on to their own domain, an entity midwifed by men like Mr. The federation, in turn, is divided into 10 “cantons,” each with its own government. Dodik’s Serb territory, known as Republika Srpska, and a federation controlled by Bosniaks and ethnic Croats.
Under the Dayton settlement, Bosnia is divided into two largely self-governing parts: Mr. Dodik and has vowed to veto any move by the European Union to impose sanctions. But Hungary’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orban, recently visited the Serb region’s capital, Banja Luka, to offer support to Mr. Germany and Britain are discussing sanctions. A quarter of them, she said, were killed in the fighting that began shortly after. Dzaferovic, who represents Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks.Ī teacher displayed a photograph from 1991 that showed a dozen of her male students at the time, all looking relaxed and happy. Two of the country’s presidents include Mr. The deal stopped the fighting but created an elaborate and highly dysfunctional political system, with a weak central authority in which different ethnic groups share power. The frictions in Bosnia are rooted in the 1995 Dayton peace agreement, brokered by the United States. Russia, which wants to prevent Bosnia from joining the bloc or NATO, is already siding with Mr.
Now the United States and the European Union, which Bosnia aspires to join, are desperate to stop the new crisis from escalating into conflict, or creating the sort of political instability that Russia could exploit. Those Balkan wars left roughly 140,000 people dead, drew in NATO warplanes and soldiers and created a rift between Russia and the West that remains today. It was in Sarajevo, Bosnia’s capital, that a teenage Serb nationalist set off World War I by assassinating an Austrian archduke in June 1914, and where the seemingly deranged rants of a Serb psychiatrist, Radovan Karadzic, presaged a three-year spree of bloodletting in the 1990s.
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