Posted 12/6/2023, 8:54:05 PM
Bosnian Serb Leader Dodik Faces Trial for Defying Peace Accords
- Bosnian Serb leader Dodik is on trial for defying peace envoy Christian Schmidt's rulings over Bosnia's peace accords
- Dodik demanded the trial be moved to the capital of Bosnia's Serb entity and called Schmidt a "stinker"
- Dodik signed laws rejecting Schmidt's decisions and the constitutional court
- He faces 5 years in prison and a ban from politics if convicted
- Dodik has long stoked ethnic tensions and recently ramped up calls for Bosnia's Serb entity to secede