Hundreds of Bosnian Serbs staged a protest in support of their separatist leader, Milorad Dodik, who seeks union with Serbia. The protests were held at the unmarked internal border in Bosnia, which separates the country into Bosnian Serb Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat federation, as called for under the US-mediated peace deal that ended the country’s 1992-95 war. The Serb protesters chanted slogans against Bosnia being a single state and briefly blocked traffic between the two entities, but no major incidents were reported. Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik, who has close ties to Putin, has been openly striving to separate Bosnian Serb territories from the rest of Bosnia and join them with Serbia. He was sanctioned by the US in 2017 for his efforts. Bosnian prosecutors are filing charges against Dodik for his separatist actions and defying decisions by an international official overseeing peace in the country. If sentenced, he could face up to five years in jail.
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