Serbian Democratic Party

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

For the Croatian political party, see Serb Democratic Party (Croatia).

The Serbian Democratic Party (Serbian: Српска демократска Странка, Srpska Demokratska Stranka, СДС, SDS) is a Republika Srpska 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.

The Serbian Democratic Party is under sanctions from the United States. The sanctions prohibit any transfer of funds and material from the US to the SDS and vice versa [1]

There is also a minor Serb Democratic Party of Montenegro.

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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, viollations of laws of war, and grave breaches of the Geneva conventions.
Nikola Koljević.

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Multi-ethnic parties	Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Democratic People's Community - People's Party Work for Betterment Bosnian Party - Citizens' Democratic Party - Greens of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Liberal Democratic Party - Pensioners' Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Democratic youth movement - Our Party - Independent Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Republicans of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosniak parties	Party of Democratic Action - Bosniak People's Party - Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party-Sefer Halilović

Serb parties	Alliance of Independent Social Democrats - Serbian Democratic Party - Party of Democratic Progress - Serbian People's Alliance Democratic Party - Pensioners' Party - Serbian Radical Party - Socialist Party - League of People's Rebirth

Croat parties	Croatian Democratic Union - Croats Together (HDZ 1990) Christian Democrats - Croatian Christian Democratic Union - Croatian Party of Rights - Croatian Peasant Party - New Croatian Initiative - Croatian Right Bloc

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