ISSN: 2560-1601 Vol. 37, No. 1 (BH) February 2021 Bosnia-Herzegovina political briefing: War crimes and the current politics of Republika Srpska Zvonimir Stopić 1052 Budapest Petőfi Sándor utca 11. +36 1 5858 690 Kiadó: Kína-KKE Intézet Nonprofit Kft.
[email protected] Szerkesztésért felelős személy: CHen Xin Kiadásért felelős személy: Huang Ping china-cee.eu 2017/01 War crimes and the current politics of Republika Srpska With the beginning of the year 2021, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s politics completed yet another more or less expected circle. Ever since the end of the war, every year in Bosnia and Herzegovina starts with the controversies surrounding the Day of Republika Srpska, which is persistently celebrated on the date (January 9th) found unconstitutional by the Constitutional court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Every year in Bosnia and Herzegovina thus begins with the reemergence of painful memories of war, which only ad more proof to the continuous realization of both the Bosnia and Herzegovina’s inability to spur internal change and of the depth of political issues which prevent change in the first place. In this briefing we will present some elements of the extremism of Republika Srpska’s leadership, which in the past several months could have been noticed kindling underneath the political surface covered by the COVID-19 and the preparation for the local (municipal) elections. January 9th On January 9th, 1992, prior to the proclamation of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s independency, the Assembly of the Serbian People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaimed an independent entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, which in the further step was to separate from Bosnia and Herzegovina and join Yugoslavia.