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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 07/04
Wages of Sin: Confronting Bosnia's Republika Srpska
October 8, 2001
Abstract
By recognising Republika Srpska (RS) as a legitimate polity and constituent entity of the new Bosnia, the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement embraced a contradiction. For the RS was founded as a stepping stone to a Greater Serbia - and forged in atrocities against - and mass expulsions of non-Serbs.
Ten years ago, Radovan Karadzic led the members of his Serb Democratic Party (SDS) out of the parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia): soon afterwards, in January 1992, they proclaimed 'Republika Srpska', as part of their strategy to undermine Bosnia's integrity and preclude its independence. First as an idea and then as a fact, the RS negated Bosnia's history, demography and integrity.
