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Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Parliamentary Assembly late April 10 adopted the crucial and highly controversial police laws needed for the country to meet the requirements to sign the European Union’s Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA).
The reforms create a unified police force, a thorny issue for Bosnia because the country’s three main ethnic/religious groups — Catholic Croats, Muslim Bosniaks and Orthodox Serbs — have been wary of allowing the factions to police each other. The largest holdouts on the issue in the past were the Serbs in the autonomous region of Republika Srpska, though the Bosniaks recently also started to fracture and hold out. The Bosniaks were open for negotiation on the reforms, but the Serbs viewed things differently. Republika Srpska leader Milorad Dodik was leveraging a veto of police reforms against his threat to break the Serbian region off from Bosnia so that it might become an independent state or join neighboring Serbia.
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