What has happened to Bosnia and Kosovo?
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzogovina has been divided into a Serbia Republic (Sprska) and a Bosnia Federation that includes Muslim and Croatian regions. The divided nation has a three member presidency that consists of a representative from each major ethnic group, a Muslim, a Croat and a Serb, which rotates every 8 months. Ethnic identity determines voting patterns. The republics have maintained separate armies. U.S. troops as a part of NATO remained in Bosnia until the end of 2004. On Dec. 2, 2004, a European Union force, consisting of almost the same troops as in NATO, assumed peace-keeping operations. Bosnia’s appearance after drastic wars seems to be constituted worse than a pre-war successful diplomacy would have designed it. At the end of 2004, the Bosnian republics began to show some cooperation. More than a million refugees have returned home, even to villages where they are in the minority, dozens of culprits have been sent to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague and
