Riz Khan - Bosnia in decline- 17 Sep 09- Pt 1

The Dayton peace agreement was signed 14 years ago, the treaty marked the end to three and a half years of brutal conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The agreement stopped the mass killings but this success aside there remains a barely-functioning government made up of two separate entities, each with its own administrations.

Important national decisions are regularly split down old political, religious and ethnic lines, leading the Office of the High Representative - an international institution - to step in and determine the outcome of many key local issues.

The international community once highlighted Bosnia as a model of successful postwar reconstruction. But after $14 billion of spending the impact of this huge global intervention on the ground is highly debatable. Is it time to let Bosnia run itself?

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