The laws adopted by the Autonomous Region of the Republika Srpska reject the authority of the federal police and the judiciary.
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia suspended the legislation adopted by the Autonomous Region of the Republika Srpska which rejects the authority of the Federal Police and the Judicial Power on its territory.
The court said on Friday that it “temporarily suspended” the laws that Bosnian President Milorad Dodik pushed through regional parliament earlier this week.
The laws were adopted a few days after a Sarajevo court condemned Dodik to one year in prison and prohibited from his duties for six years for having refused to comply with the decisions taken by Christian Schmidt – the high international representative responsible for supervising the Bosnian peace agreements.
Since the end of the inter -ethnic conflict of Bosnia in the 1990s, the country has composed two autonomous regions – Republika Srpska and a federation of Muslim coal, linked by a low central government.
Bosnia officials say that Dodik’s laws violate the Dayton Peace Agreement which ended the war of the country in 1992-1995, linking the two entities in joint institutions, notably the army, the high-level courts and the tax authorities.
Dodik said Thursday that he would ignore an assignment of the prosecutors of the state of Bosnia investigating him for having allegedly undermined the constitutional order of the country.
On Friday, he doubled on his separatist campaign, calling on the ethnic Serbs to leave the federal police forces and the courts and to join the government of Republika Srpska.
“We have provided them with a job, while preserving their legal status, its ranks and their posts. They will receive the same salary, even a higher salary as they had, ”said Dodik.
Dodik later added that he was not planned to climb violent, but insisted that Republika Srpska had “the ability to defend himself, and we will do it”.
Friday, local media reported that the Bosnian Serbian Republic police had forced federal agents from the State Information and Protection Agency (SIPA) of their premises in the city of Banja Luka.
But the head of Sipa Darko Culum then labeled the incorrect reports, insisting that the security situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina was “stable and calm”.
The situation at Republika Srpska remained tense on Friday.
The Srebrenica Memorial Center – where most of the 8,000 victims killed by ethnic forces in July 1995 are buried – said they had closed “until further notice”, citing the uncertainty triggered by the current political crisis.
“This decision was made due to the inability to provide suitable security guarantees to our employees, employees, guests and visitors,” said the center, which is located in the village of Potocari, in an online statement.
