Serb 'fear-mongering' ahead of Bosnia vote raises concern - security aide

Bosnia and Herzegovina's Security Minister Dragan Mektic speaks during interview for Reuters in his office in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina March 12, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's autonomous Serb entity is "fear-mongering" to undermine the country's integrity by organising nationalist paramilitary groups and disproportionately arming the region's police, a national security official said in an interview with Reuters.

Secessionist pressures in the Serb Republic, set up as one of two autonomous regions as part of a 1995 deal to end Bosnia's war among Serbs, Bosniaks and Croats, is raising international concern about a relapse into turmoil in the Balkans.