Bosnia crisis at worst since 1992-1995 war, says peace accord official

 Christian Schmidt said leaders of the country’s Bosnian Serb-dominated entity have systematically challenged 1995 peace agreement provisions

Bosnia Crisis: The top international official in Bosnia called the escalating political crisis in the country the most serious since the 1992-1995 war that saw 100,000 people die and warned in a report circulated Tuesday that its potential to become a security crisis is very real.

Christian Schmidt, the high representative overseeing implementation of the 1995 peace agreement that ended the devastating war, said leaders of the country’s Bosnian Serb-dominated entity have systematically challenged its provisions and intensified their activities aimed at usurping powers granted to the federal government.

The US-brokered Dayton peace agreement established two separate entities in Bosnia one run by Bosnia’s Serbs and another dominated by the country’s Bosniaks, who are mostly Muslims, and Croats. The two entities are bound together by joint central institutions, and all important decisions must be backed by both…International News