To this day funerals are still taking place as DNA is used to identify remains, and grave sites are still being sought out. He has a proud record of denying the mass murder of 6,000 Muslim men and boys, and the heinous efforts to hide the mass graves and deny the systemic rape of women. He has the power to veto laws, and introduce his own. Overseeing it all is the international community’s High Representative, currently the German politician Christian Schmidt. The Army, police and judiciary are cross-community, serving as shared institutions for all Bosnians. The peace agreement signed in Dayton, Ohio created a multinational state with three presidents to serve the three communities in Bosnia: one Bosniak, one Serb, and one Croat. Bosnia’s very existence is a delicate balancing act – and Putin is trying to destroy that balance right now to serve his own interests.Īfter the Bosnian War, and the terrible failure of international community which saw the terrible massacre of 6,000 Bosniaks at Srebrenica by Milosevic’s troops, the international community finally stepped forward to help establish a fragile stability. There have been wars there for centuries – most recently in 1992-5, when it was the scene of the only genocide in Europe since the Holocaust. Its capital, Sarajevo, was where the First World War was sparked. Bosnia is a beautiful country with a heart-breaking history.