Karadzic Arrest 'Will End Bosnia Serb Entity'

Sarajevo _ The arrests of Bosnian Serb war fugitives, including Radovan Karadzic, will end the Bosnian Serb entity of Republika Srpska, Karadzic's brother warns.

“If it ever comes to the arrest of Karadzic and Mladic, than Republika Srpska would be proclaimed an illegal creation according to the international law, since then it would be proved that was it created on genocide,” local media on Friday quoted Luka Karadzic as saying.

The Bosnian Serb political and military leaders during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, respectively, are among four persons indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, who still remain in hiding 13 years after the end of the war.

Luka Karadzic added that in case of eventual arrest of Karadzic and Mladic both Republika Srpska and Serbia would be declared guilty for genocide.

“This is why we must not allow these two to be arrested and we have to do everything we can for Republika Srpska and Serbia to unite,” Luka Karadzic said.

The massacre of 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July 1995 by Mladic's forces have already been declared genocide by The Hague War Crimes Tribunal.

Mladic and Karadzic have both indicted by the court for genocide.

Even after the end of the Bosnian war, some Bosnian Serb and Serbian hardliners have continued hoping for the unification of Republika Srpska and Serbia.

These demands have reached a high after the February 17 declaration of independence by Kosovo from Serbia.

Yet the other two constituent ethnic groups in Bosnia as well as the international community have strongly rebuffed any such possibility.