Peace Overseer Fires Croat President

Bosnia’s top international administrator fired the Bosnian Croat president and other senior officials, days after their political party announced plans to abandon its alliance with the country’s Muslims.

Ante Jelavic--the Croat member of the country’s three-person presidency--was also barred from holding any other elected post, according to the office of Wolfgang Petritsch, who oversees compliance with the 1995 peace agreement that ended the Bosnian war.

Jelavic, leader of Bosnia’s Croat Democratic Union, and other Bosnian Croat nationalists pledged Saturday to create their own state--a violation of the Dayton accord.