The most negative ideology in the region is that of Greater Serbia and Bosnia must find a way to stand up to it, Professor at the Franciscan Theology University in Sarajevo, Ivo Markovic, told N1 on Saturday.

Markovic commented on recent developments in Montenegro, where the parliament adopted a disputed law on freedom of confession at a tense late-night session during which a group of opposition MPs were arrested after causing an incident.

“Here we have a case of the ideology of Greater Serbia. That is the most negative thing in the Balkans, a conceitful ideology. Serbs were exiled from Croatia, what is happening in Bosnia is uncertain, now Montenegro is emerging again, freeing itself from the submission which the greater Serbia ideology has imposed,” he said.

“Who is causing violence? Those supporters of greater Serbia in the Assembly in Belgrade and Banja Luka,” he added.

Markovic called the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, the leader of the main Bosnian Serb party in Bosnia, Milorad Dodik, and the leader of the strongest Bosnian Croat political party, Dragan Covic “despots.”

“Now they control the media, they brainwash the people, fill them with aggression. This must be stood up to, this evil of greater Serbia. We must find a way to stand up to this greater Serbia idea systematically,” he said.