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streets peacefully, ought to make very clear that their aspirations for democracy. i remain, i and they remain strong. i, we join the sudanese people and calling for justice and accountability at for i the abuses of human rights. and we urge the military to in the internet shut down . and the state of emergency for you and security council will meet on friday to discuss the fighting in ethiopia. international calls are growing for an immediate cease fire. the u. s. special envoy. the region is in adis. i'm about to push for di escalation. non essential staff from the u. s. embassy have been authorized to lee machines. government has declared 2 days of national morning for 6 to 9 people killed in an attack on a remote village. a convoy ned by local mare was ambushed near the borders of malia and bettina fossil. the region is at the center of a conflict with groups linked to iso and al qaeda. the double

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the p steel. it ended the war in bosnia herzegovina, 26 years ago, is in danger of unraveling threats from bosnian serb leaders. a cooling for the withdrawal of support from state level institutions in republic, a sub hska and entity with around one point. 2000000 people that makes up roughly half of bosnia herzegovina could such a separatist push, see a returned to the conflict in the region. this is inside story. ah hello, welcome to the program. i'm adrian finnegan, a u. s. broke

a deal brought an end to the bosnian war among bosnian subs, crowds and boston acts in 1995. but some of the ethnic divisions intentions that spark that 3 year conflict have continued to simmer for the past 26 years. so much so that the now threatening the unity of the balkan nation, the bosnian serb leader miller. i thought a case threatening to pull out of state level institutions, including the national army, built up with international assistance over the past quarter century and to reconstitute a sub force. the international communities envoy christine schmidt says that such threats posed an existential threat to the nation. all of this, as the u. n, announced an extension to the mandate of the european union military force, a yearly practice to help maintain peacekeeping operations in bosnia herzegovina. we'll get to our guests in just a few moments, but 1st a report from alice. here is john, how plans by the bosnian serb leadership to exit some of the country's tripartite institutions, including the military,

are described by the international communities. hi, representative christian schmidt as tantamount to secession. they constitute, he says, the greatest existential threat of the post war period. he's talking about bosnian serb leader miller and da dick who says a new army will be set up in the sir brown entity of republic, a sub scott with the bosnian army force to withdraw if necessary. he says the serbs will call on their friends for help, a presumed reference to serbia proper to and russia. i'll report because since gotcha that republicans epsco will control its own affairs in a legal constitutional manner. including by having its own army judiciary, fiscal administration, as well as intelligence and security agencies. we will reestablish all these institutions for the last month, a training exercise by both the and said police was denounced by muslim balls in the 2nd crow at leaders. the other members of a 3 way power sharing government formed by the 995 date the peace agreement. they

took place on the mountain overlooking, sorry, over from where serbs snipers, and artillery. they see that a capital beginning in 1990 to thousands of civilians died in a war that culminated in what international judges have called genocide when more than 8000. mostly men and boys were massacred by sir troops in the eastern enclave of trevor. anita hi, representatives. report to the u. n. this week says there is a very real prospect of a return to conflict in bosnia. but there is no obvious appetite on the part of western powers to increase their security presence. their political tensions are a part of daily life in a country such as boston, heard to governor, where you have different groups competing for political power. but you didn't ever see the threats of the violence or b as in session or be parallel institutions come this far as they have now. at least not in a very long time. miller da dick has for years called to the separation of the serb

run part of bosnia from the rest of the country. just weeks ago, dick shed the seeds on social media. he and colleagues singing serb nationalist folk songs in their sorry, over headquarters. it was a reminder that the u. s. sponsored piece in both near did not bring ethnic harmony, nor did it come with any long term guarantee. jonah, how al jazeera ah. alright, let's bring it, i guess for today from, sorry, ever. we're joined by ham's a conscious associate professor of political science at the university of sorry, a vote from berlin. bought a webber who's a senior associate at the democratization policy council. and from belgrade were joined by alexander brezza. a journalist usually based and sorry of a gentleman. welcome to the program. so if we can stop with you, christine schmidt says there's a very real prospect of

a return to conflict in bosnia, is he right? i think he is. and this is the most serious political crisis the boss is currently facing since the end of the war and 1995. we are not sure how this will move forward and what the outcome will be. but i would agree with mister smith. but a watch of the international community be doing right now, are you in the us taking the situation seriously enough? ah, rising awareness, fortunately, there is a serious situation. i agree with my previous says that this is the most serious crisis we've seen in the end over the war. unfortunately, this crisis is one of the west, the use and the u. s. own making its self inflicted wounds. clothing will be seen as the human secret council yesterday. so the west not only has not driven its crisis to emerge. its officials are directly responsible for the

emergence of this crisis. they need to urgently make your turn and take this crisis serious and pull the public right. but he says, self inflicted with what is it, what is it that they haven't done that they should have been doing? well, i mean, for 15 years we've gone since we had since the west has put over responsibility for or leaving the country to the domestic leads or we are lacking any policy western long term strategic policy towards to reach and that's what was missing. we created a white comment which nationalist could thrive, and in which russia would jump in as a no cost spoiler on the other end. for the last 34 years in that welcome leg of political will to deal with the country and deal with the white or by somebody in region. we have seen middle level officials. we have been tasked with mission and

passed on to fix situations in the board and without higher level support that they for career is reason to have started to collude with domestic nationalist leaders. and they are an agenda us making an opening. and this crisis with the currently c is one that has started with e. we asked negotiations or lance of course will serve or 4 years ago and then moved over to boise on the dirty deal. as ontario charl division one below. the public grader and capitalist raider in was in the town of most or last year and the follow up in so collection law reform negotiations. you and us officials have been leading since february this. alexander, do you agree with what you've heard so far? is the peace deal that ended the war 26 years ago in danger of unraveling? i think this is going to be one of those shows where all the guests agree in an absolute principle when it comes to the fact that this is the biggest chrysler doesn't have to go on a has experience since since 1995 and the signing of the day or however,

maybe i'm, i was a hammer born optimist, but i still do think that there are some checks and balances within the very they can piece of course. but also the country itself, as complicated as that, might be as complex as it might be, that might prevent any kind of, you know, everything that we're seeing so far escalate into some kind of open, open, open conflict, the size of a war. what is the mood like there in sarajevo at the moment a people genuinely fearful? yes, i think my people are concerned much of this reminds them of the fall of 91 when another on college and his ilk began undertaking this month's long process that led to secession and jour side. so many people are joined parallels. are this fall 2021 to 1991. so i think many people are generally concerned. okay. what do you think

miller? i bought a kit is up to right now. why is he doing what he's doing or with who's backing? well, he is now undertaking the most decisive and the most substantial steps towards the session. now, previously he was to talk about and independence for the public, a service guy, but now he is fine too, and he's tactics. and now he's talking about beast while doing editing, to undermine it. and he obviously has the bacon of serbia, and i think he hopes to get the backing of the liberal democracies in central europe. bo, dot, it says that if the west tries to intervene militarily to uphold the peace plan, he has friends who have promised to support the cause. who are those friends? how seriously should we take his threats? well, i would say we have seen in the past, you read that. he definitely has a few friends among you members,

but this is not the biggest danger for mr. the really implementing is and the danger here isn't here and you're free for all. and i think we have to line, we're political calculation, christ this crisis. let me remind you that mr. dody, who is not the product, is all the regime in 15 years in the earth, not the product of support by citizens or so don't support this dangerous adventure . it's a product of western weakness. he has maybe 30 times for in the last 15 years. threatened with referenda obsession testing, the west red line, experiencing that these red lines. i'm not there and moving those red line currently because of that background i mentioned previously. he has been pulled by the accelerating weakness of the west and by our official smid level official really playing into the hands nationally agenda. and i think he was hoping to

get something in return for this thread. but he is, it seems to me, put by the lack of a serious result and responds into their action for the 1st time. maybe no, not seeing how to make a u turn and spoke this session. but having to implement. so, i mean, we are in the interest of miscalculation political miscalculation. we're really because of this power, red comb. everything can happen, whatever the support from bank of it is, i'm pretty sure the grid which itself is playing this game with western weakness between east and west, and on the russian and even the russian and playing on the western weakness that nobody wants to conflict. as i said, we are beyond got relations and the west is only starting to wake up. so this is a very dangerous alex. how did you agree with other daughter case?

politically miscalculating, he says he wants peaceful dissolution. unraveling institutions like the intelligence and security agencies. the state court, the constitutional court. what does that mean for for bosnia herzegovina, the state given what happened that, how can that be? how can he think that could be peaceful dissolution? one off of the country doesn't get to say it. i think that's a really good point to make. i think there cannot be such a thing as peaceful dissolution because the peace accord itself does not allow or have a provision that would allow one ethnic group or several couple of ethnic groups to as is that peacefully succeed. i think the only way to succeed or split up the country would be through another war. but when we talk about those and his capabilities, as a politician, i think that he, you know, he represents that the, the kind of populist at, if most it's most simple formula put it that way. so for instance,

when he brought in an accordion player to the president of bosnia and herzegovina, to his office and the president to buzzing, or it's going on simon thongs. and you know how hard liquor mid day and call his mother. he wasn't just signaling you know, the kind of confidence that you will see in your average for this in the balkans you will not hear what he was also trying to signal is you know that he is in charge of making the right decision for his people and that's very sort of folks the way and the problem i think that does speak to a lot of people in the republican service can also throughout the region also. but at the same time, i do want to say one more thing regarding an earlier question. and you know, you ask that people are fearful, and i think a lot of the comes from previous experiences. the country has gone through a very bloody war, as we all know some 30 years ago. and, you know, you have up to half of the population who suffers from some form of the people are

very easily triggers and they're even more easily triggered. and this is where i don't think it's calculating. i think he's calculating, you know, to his advantage is there even more easily triggered if you mention that you're forming, we, are we forming an army that was active during the 990 to 9095 war and was responsible for genocide. again, fogging out all sorts of atrocities and on earlier attempt at dividing the country . so you know, if, if there's an answer to your question, i think we can find that probably there comes that you want to come in on that well i think thats dolock is now many people think here the dog is not bluffing that he's actually going to see the state level institutions of death in order to use the competence us and then take those and empowered a public, a subs come. so what he's doing basically is politics. 11,

he's establishing new effects on the ground. but he is also, he has built close relations with russia close relations with sort of yes. so now he, he is, you know, the thing, his policies as bringing the country closer to what he referred to as an original based on which is basically a euphemism for this mentally. and undermining state institutions. his fact that he's very clear he wants to undermine and this mental status that use us to prove that bosnia is incapable of functioning while at the same time trying to build up to public us there scott is that would be a state like entity. so has a will the high representative do next? will he make for the use of the bond powers of 1997, which, which grant him a power to prevent the dayton agreement being delayed or obstructed by local politicians where they've already been used extensively. but they're not without controversy, all they, well, you know, the office of the high representative is

a shadow of its former self, and it's actually deciding over its own decline into relevance. so now at the new height presented to mr. schmidt, who is not being recognized as a highlight by the serbian side even if he were to impose sanctions or strive to sec, elected officials. it's not clear that they would actually obey this. so i think the, what was left on the way shot is a, is a p, a shadow of the form of self. so they're not the element as, as much as they were some 10 years ago. butter. do you agree with that? have how does, how are, is this the solve does to schmidt as he is, have us the support for more vigorous action against those who oppose the unity and, and territorial integrity of bosnia herzegovina. wow, i would agree with my previous that the child is not the one it was until 2006. let me remind you when we had this policy shift on the western run and she's the

leadership from the u. s. u and the double shift in 2006, which created their dog and their shift to a word so called ownership, that means poring over responsibility to local leads. and this was a policy you were weird. it was on the west coast and they cleared basically success, but it's a stable country. but as we had not transform the constitutional order, which was and has remained an order for a dysfunctional that only works for the ethnic elite really early. this may not work out but the west because it was never had a political will never adjusted policy and was left without any policy in returns. it was the white house, the neutralized representative. so, i mean, the situation we see currently is we still have the,

the instrument to stop this madness both on the civilian side with the higher percentage of, on the military side with you from military mission. and they h q and sorry, which with a chapter 7 security complimented to guarantee a safe and secure environment and to protect the constitutional order of the country. and that is a cause. i don't think it's threatening to unravel here but, but as we have 15 years of policy weakness and, and negligence and ignorance, including in the last year, we have a very serious question of whether there is a way what's going on and whether it's ready to use its instrument and if i just point to you you, it was yesterday's un security council vote which was restored to be on the annual extension of you for a minute in which russia a stepped up with a black meal threatening to the media. and the western standing members of the

security council, friends, you korean us out of a lack of political will to fight back on that we do. and i not accept that. we do basically sign off russia on their part me, alexandra. what's the role of croatia and serbia in all of us? well, it's a really interesting question. i think, you know, the role survey is quite, quite obvious. someone who is quite interested and least at the very least, supporting the boss in the bosnian serb regime in the report because it's got at least, you know, in some sort of form whether it's through financial means as meager as that, as or through, you know, just general verbal support, but what i think is indicative what is something that can be gleaned from the last meeting that body cod in belgrade with alex on which the president of serbia where

after the meeting came out and said, and he was in full support of the continuation of the you for mission involvement, which was very interesting. at the same time mister just says and his cohort should go for planning, solving the issue of land, state property or state on land that has not been resolved, which is another thing that we want to extend trying to do over the years, which is transfer all the state owned by the state level agencies or government or what have you, property onto the entity. and that has failed miserably several times in the past. that also, i think, can indicate that i at least believe that he does not have the full support for which and which is actually quite interested in possibly finding an alternative leader for bosnian serbs, in bosnia who he could work with much more closely and probably get more from as

far as crazy is concerned, i think, you know, obviously since we haven't heard much from the bobby and cross on this entire issue there talk to support has led as of many, many years been with s and daniel. so i think, you know, then again, politics and creation being what they are, they're more interested in pushing for the all law reform that are more than mentioned earlier, which is a completely different problem the placing is undergoing at the same time. and it's something that we would have to, you know, have another entire other shows darker. and so it would rapidly running out of time . here before the renewal of, of the un peacekeeping mandate this week, russia had threatened to block a resolution unless all references to the you and have representative for work removed potentially, undermining further christian. schmidt's authority as, as the overseer of that, the dayton accord. and that was after schmidt had said that more international peacekeepers would have to be sent to stop. and he slide back towards war if the

sub separatist carried out their threat to create their own army. what are the implications for bosnia of russia's threats of the un? well, i'm just like to refer back to something that both of us said, i think the european union force in boston you for is awfully inadequate to deal with any security challenge here. so i think that the extension of the amended in bosnia isn't as important as you will have it as the tend to think about it 1st. so, but i think russian is also, you know, has stepped up its support for and close the links. we don't think so. i think he comes from russian support in what he does and poto. what happens if dayton fails? well, it didn't fits. we're going to have conflict. we're going to have violent dis integration . i mean, the madness of, i mean, you see this is a gambling by mr. do. the, the alexander mentioned about the singling of mr. go the extra in this meeting with

president, which from belgrade is a clear indicator he wants, this is a gambling of threads threatening disintegration of bosnia to the west. and once a return, particularly from the you for stopping it. but that return a like he's both and product pardoner, mr. charge on the election law, ron is based the following. something very similar. it's a, it's a face disintegration of the country. one, he wants basically an arrangement on an approval from the you and the u. s. b girls, what he wants and bus me to each want is to churn bosnia really far and body. and they are doing this for 10 years into a kind of union of entities and can and that space, you know, esl journal division, which would ultimately lead to this integration. they're still can be a stop in here. i don't agree with my producers. the, with the west has the instruments to stop this. you for can act if it has the

political world, they are actually understaffed and to remain. but they can call in over the horizon to stop any conflict. but it's a question of political will. and that political will was not there when the west, what's trent with the russian beat on you for? ok. and so they accepted this black mailing in the, in the security council of stripping the resolution of extending the many for one more year from any language reference to o. r. and that by itself does not have legal consequences, but it sense a very dangerous signal. bully go signal, because always tell mr. dodie to bang right and to russia, that it is not clear that in a case of a threat, a security threat which, which these announce steps towards succession would mean that the west is ready to grant authority to the high read ok to use the one on the political side and to you for on the other end to, to, to act on the military. and that's

a very dangerous jacqueline, that we're going to have to end it many. thanks. and a 2 you will have a coach. go to weber. and alexander brezza, as always, thank you for watching. don't forget, you can see the program. i get it any time by going to the website out here a dot com for further discussion. join us on our facebook page. you'll find that at facebook dot com forward slash ha inside story, and you can join the conversational twitter handle at ha, inside story for me, adrian. again, the whole team here with ah,

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