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
Serb Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Serb Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina) The Serb Democratic Party ( or СДС/SDS) is a Serb political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently led by Vukota Govedarica, who succeeded Mladen Bosić. In the parliamentary elections of October 2006, the SDS lost its status as the leading party in Republika Srpska and the main Serb party in Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), led by the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik. The Serb Democratic Party is under sanctions from the United States for "failing to arrest and turn over war crimes suspects