Bosnia crisis: Dodik’s separatism threatens peace in the Balkans

The peace deal that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s is at risk of unravelling. Plans by the Bosnian Serb leadership to exit some of the country’s tripartite institutions, including the military, are described by the international community’s high representative, Christian Schmidt, as tantamount to secession. They constitute, he says, the greatest existential threat of the post-war period. He talks about Bosnian Serb leader, Milorad Dodik, who says a new army will be set up in the Serb-run entity of Republika Srpska, with the Bosnian army forced to withdraw. If necessary, he says, the Serbs will call on their friends for help – a presumed reference to Serbia proper and Russia. Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Bosnia #MiloradDodik #BosniaCrisis
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