Reacting to a statement made by Bosnia’s top international official Valentin Inzko, who said that Bosnian Serb secession could lead to a war, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said that by just mentioning a dissolution, Inzko acknowledged this option is being considered.

Inzko told Bloomberg that Srebrenica, the eastern Bosnian town where during the war Bosnian Serbs killed more than 8,000 Bosniak civilians, could become a key area of potential conflict.

Two international courts qualified the massacre as genocide. However, the peace agreement that ended the 1992-95 war, placed the town in the Bosnian Serb part of the country, called Republika Srpska.

Dodik has been announcing the secession of Republika Srpska for years, most frequently ahead of elections.

“But if Srebrenica would be in a foreign country this would be a case for war,” Inzko told Bloomberg.

“Obviously the development of the political situation is heading toward a dissolution, having in mind that Inzko is occupied with the status of Srebrenica. Why would he be otherwise mentioning it?” Dodik said on Saturday.

“However, Republika Srpska has no intention to fight wars but it will certainly protect its rights and interests,” Dodik added.

“It seems the dissolution of Bosnia and Herzegovina is very intensively present in Inzko’s head. During the war, Serbs and Bosniaks were killed in Srebrenica and the perpetrators must be made accountable for it. But nobody was processed for the killings of Serbs yet and Inzko and people like him constantly talk about it as if only Bosniaks were killed,” he said.