Serbian Democratic Party

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For the Serbian political party, see Serbian Democratic Party (Serbia).

The Serb Democratic Party (Serbian: Српска демократска Странка or Srpska Demokratska Stranka, СДС or SDS) is a Bosnian Serb right-wing political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is led by Mladen Bosić. He succeeded Dragan Čavić.

The status of the leading party in Repulika Srpska and the main Serb party in Bosnia and Herezovina the SDS lost to the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), lead by the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik, in the parliamentary elections of October 2006.

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Some of the party's highest positioned members were :

Radovan Karadžić (active 1989-1996) a fugitive accused for war crimes by the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; crimes against humanity, crimes against life and health, genocide, grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva conventions, murder, plunder, and violations of the laws or customs of war (see Geneva Conventions).
Biljana Plavšić (active 1989-1997) pled guilty to one count of crimes against humanity at the ICTY for her part in persecuting Bosnian Muslims and Croats during the war in Bosnia.
Momčilo Krajišnik with genocide, crimes against humanity, vilolations of laws of war, and grave breaches of the Geneva conventions.
Nikola Koljević.

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Note that there was also a Serb Democratic Party in Croatia between 1990 and 1995, led by Jovan Rašković and Milan Babić. See also: Republic of Serbian Krajina.