Serbian Democratic Party Српска демократска Странка Srpska Demokratska Stranka
Leader	Mladen Bosić
Founded	1992
Headquarters	Banja Luka
Ideology	National conservatism
International affiliation	None
European affiliation	None
Official colours	Red, Blue, White
Ethnic group	Bosnian Serb
Website
www.sdsrs.com
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The Serbian Democratic Party (Serbian: Српска демократска Странка, Srpska Demokratska Stranka, СДС, SDS) is a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is led by Mladen Bosić. He succeeded Dragan Čavić.

The status of the leading party in Republika Srpska and the main Serb party in Bosnia and Herezovina the SDS lost to the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), led 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]

[edit] History

Some of the party's highest positioned members were :

• Radovan Karadžić (active 1989-1996) accused of 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). Karadzic founded the Serbian Democratic Party.
• Biljana Plavšić (active 1989-1997) pleaded 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, violations of laws of war, and grave breaches of the Geneva conventions.
• Nikola Koljević.

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Official website

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