Operation Althea, as the mission in Bosnia calls it, guarantees the implementation of the peace agreement signed following the 1992-1995 war in the country. Dodik, the chief of the Serbian-Majes region, was found guilty of relaxing this agreement at the end of February.
Russia criticized the one-year prison sentence and the six-year ban on political activities transmitted by the Bosnia and Herzegovina Court on February 26, “politically motivated”. Moscow summoned an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the case last Tuesday.
Dodik met Russian President Vladimir Putin several times since Ukraine’s large -scale invasion in 2022, echoing his anti -Western position – claiming that Brussels did not interfere in countries like Ukraine and Bosnia.
Bosnia became an EU candidate country in December 2022.
The ultra -nationalists protested to support Dodik. And the Parliament of the Serbian Bosnia-Majerity Region has adopted laws prohibiting the operations of safety, intelligence, judicial and prosecution establishments in the Serbian entity.
This is in accordance with the threats of Dodik which, years, that if he and his allies continue to be prosecuted by Bosnian institutions, he considers “illegitimate”, then he will seize the Serbian Bosnian entity. A similar feeling launched war in the country in the 1990s, which led to more than 100,000 killed and to the Srebrenica genocide of Bosnian Muslims.
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