Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said on Friday Bosnia was falling apart, blaming the inability for the country to form a government on majority Muslim “arrogance” and what he considers their attempts to subjugate the other two ethnic groups, Serbs and Croats.
“Bosnia is in the phase of disintegration and no one can help it,” Dodik said in an interview with Belgrade daily Blic. “Political arrogance of Bosnian Muslims towards Serbs and Croats is so evident that no one serious believes in Bosnia’s survival,” Dodik said.
Almost a year and a half since last parliamentary elections, the country still doesn’t have federal government and no solution was in sight despite the pressure from the international community.
Dodik blamed the stalemate on Muslim political leaders, accusing them of undermining the Dayton peace accord which ended 1992-1995 war. According to the agreement, Bosnia was divided into two entities, a Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb entity Republika Srpska of which Dodik is president.
The accord treats Muslims, Serbs and Croats as three equal, constituent groups. But Croats have complaint of being discriminated and of feeling like “sub-tenants” in their own home, demanding their own entity.
The international community, which still supervises peace in Bosnia 16 years after the war, opposes Bosnia’s partitioning, but Dodik said the process was irreversible. Asked how long it may take, he said it depended on the circumstances.
“A plant, as an organic tissue, disintegrates rapidly,” Dodik said. “But if you have a political monster like Bosnia, it may take some time,” he concluded.