Bosnian Serb Republic president: Bosnia not to unite under current president
SRNA - July 5, 2004

Banja Luka, 5 July: There can be no true reconciliation of peoples in Bosnia-Hercegovina with Bosnia-Hercegovina Presidency chairman Sulejman Tihic heading it, the Bosnian Serb Republic President Dragan Cavic's cabinet stated today.

"Tihic's policy is based on hatred. No-one in Bosnia-Hercegovina should live in the illusion that history will be written by one side only," the information service of Cavic's cabinet stated today, after Tihic had stated yesterday that "the Bosnian Serb forces committed 90 per cent of all the war crimes in the past war".

The statement added that "the Serb nation in Bosnia-Hercegovina will not be a victim of the strategies by Sulejman Tihic, Islamic cleric radicals and religious fanatics, followers of former Bosnia-Hercegovina President Alija Izetbegovic, creator of the Islamic Declaration document he published in 1970, demanding full-fundamentalist Muslim state and the cult of shehids martyrs and wahabis".

The cabinet of the Serb Republic president stated that Tihic, in the function of daily politics, "is yet again undertaking an action against the Serb nation and the Serb Republic. He, as an alchemist of history, disseminates untruths and promotes the thesis about guilt on the pan-Serbian basis".

SOURCE: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1454 gmt 5 Jul 04

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