Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Defence Ministry was informed that the Republika Srpska (RS) entity Interior Ministry contacted members of the BiH Armed Forces living on the territory of the RS and asked for certain information, over the past several weeks, the Ministry said Monday, explaining that they are in the process of making official records.

As stated, considering that the previous practice was that these and similar activities of the entity MIA were carried out by sending requests to the BiH MoD, which provided the requested data to the relevant institutions, it is unclear why they approached individual units searching for data in this way.

“It is especially symptomatic that this activity started in one municipality in the Podrinje region over the weekend and that only the Bosniak members of Armed Forces were contacted at that time. After our reaction, the RS MIA extended the questioning to members of the other ethnic groups, other municipalities, as well as to employees of other state institutions,” the Ministry said.

They added that they had sent the said information to the competent state agencies for further action.