1990s Redux: "Very real" prospect of Bosnia-Herzegovina breaking up

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Bosnia is in danger of breaking up, warns top international official | Bosnia-Herzegovina | The Guardian

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Exclusive: high representative says threat by Serb separatists to create their own army risks return of conflict

 

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The international community’s chief representative in Bosnia has warned that the country is in imminent danger of breaking apart, and there is a “very real” prospect of a return to conflict.

 

In a report to the UN seen by the Guardian, Christian Schmidt, the high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, said that if Serb separatists carry out their threat to recreate their own army, splitting the national armed forces in two, more international peacekeepers would have to be sent back in to stop the slide towards a new war.

 

 

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In his first report since taking up the post in August, Schmidt, a former German government minister, warned that Bosnia was facing “the greatest existential threat of the postwar period”.

 

The Bosnian Serb leader, Milorad Dodik, is threatening to pull out of state-level institutions, including the national army built up with international assistance over the past quarter century, and reconstitute a Serb force. On 14 October, Dodik said he would force the Bosnian army to withdraw from the Republika Srpska (the Serb half of Bosnia) by surrounding its barracks and that if the west tried to intervene militarily, he had “friends” who had promised to support the Serb cause, a presumed reference to Serbia and Russia.

 

 

If this happens, I don't think the West will be all-too-eager to intervene this time.

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Thankfully the borders between Bosniaks and Serbs is really clear!