A Bosnia court on Wednesday sentenced Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik to one year in jail and ordered him to step down from his role as president of the country's Serb-dominated region for defying orders of an international peace envoy.

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik will on Wednesday hear the verdict of a landmark trial brought over his defiance of the envoy who oversees the peace accords that ended the country's 1990s war. The country's intercommunal war,

Milorad Dodik has dominated Bosnia's Serb-majority region since 2006, holding a range of offices including a seat in the fractured Balkan country's tripartite presidency. During his four years as Bosnia's tripartite presidency,