The Battle To Control Assets Behind Bosnia Crisis

Source: International Business Times

Wanted man: Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik AFP At the heart of the deepening crisis in Bosnia -- where Serb leader Milorad Dodik has been pushing the weak central government to the brink with threats of secession -- is a battle over who owns what. The 1995 Dayton peace deal that put an end to years of bloody war, forced ethnic Serbs -- who make up about 31 percent of the population -- to accept Bosnia's independence. In exchange they got their own statelet of Republika Srpska (RS) with 49 percent of the Balkan nation's territory.