Republika Srpska (1992–95) the Serb people in Bosnia and Herzegovina: At the same session, the Bosnian Serb assembly voted to create the Army of the Republika Srpska ("VRS") ("Vojska Republike Srpske"), and appointed Ratko Mladić, the commander of the Second Military District of the Yugoslav federal army, as commander of the VRS Main Staff. At the end of May 1992, after the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Second Military District was essentially transformed into the Main Staff of the VRS. The new army immediately set out to achieve by military means the six "strategic objectives" of the Serbian people
Kenan Hajdarević (politician) 2012, Serbian president Boris Tadić attended a ceremony marking the twentieth anniversary of the Republika Srpska and received a medal and ribbon from Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik. This meeting was very controversial; the Republika Srpska was given legal recognition as part of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the 1995 Dayton Agreement, but it had a prior history as a breakaway Bosnian Serb entity in the 1992–95 Bosnian War, and many of its wartime leaders were later convicted of serious war crimes directed primarily against the Bosniak population. The commemoration of the entity's "de facto" establishment in January 1992 was widely