The powder keg of the West Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina is also in chaos.
Recently, the Bosnian court handed down guilty verdicts against leaders of the Republika Srpska. The National Assembly of Republika Srpska has passed a series of laws, further escalating ethnic contradictions within Bosnia and Herzegovina and increasing political divisions. The situation is worrying.
Republika Srpska is one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with the other entity, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Brčko District, forming Bosnia and Herzegovina. Established on February 9, 1992, Republika Srpska has its own government, parliament, army, and police force. However, by the end of 2005, the military forces of Republika Srpska merged with those of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, now both under the national-level Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
After the independence of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Croat, Bosniak, and Serb factions within continued to clash. Most of the time, the Bosniak-Croat Federation was fighting against the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, but there were also internal conflicts within the Bosniak-Croat Federation. After the三方reached the Dayton Agreement in late 1995, a ceasefire was established.
The main ethnic group in Bosnia is the Bosniaks, also known as Bosnian Muslims, who belong to the South Slavic ethnic group. They are mainly distributed in the independent Bosnia and Herzegovina formed after the breakup of Yugoslavia. They are primarily descendants of Serbs or Croats who converted to Islam during the Ottoman Turkish period. Due to differences in lifestyle and traditional customs compared to Serbs or Croats, they are considered a separate ethnic group in modern times. In Chinese documents, Bosniaks are often translated as Bosnians, but "Bosnian" is a national designation rather than an ethnic one.
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