Regional Bosnia government formed as protesters chant 'treason'

People peacefully protest against the parliament's confirmation of Bosnia's new regional government, based on a ruling by Bosnia's international peace envoy Christian Schmidt, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 28, 2023. REUTERS/Daria Sito-Sucic

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's parliament on Friday confirmed the new government of the autonomous Bosniak-Croat Federation in a tight vote ordered by Bosnia's international envoy as protesters outside chanted "treason".

Following a devastating war in the 1990s in which about 100,000 people died, Bosnia was split into two ethnically based autonomous regions, the federation and the Serb Republic, linked by a weak central government.