Sarajevo, 20 Jan. ( (AKI) - Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said on Friday he was considering a boycott of the federal government amid a dispute over federal prosecutors halting a probe of war crimes against Serbs.

Six parliamentary parties in Bosnia-Herzegovina, representing Muslims, Serbs and Croats, agreed this month on forming federal government, 15 months after parliamentary election, but Dodik said he may reconsider his participation.

Bosnian federal prosecutors said on Tuesday they halted an investigation against wartime Muslim member of Bosnian presidency Ejup Ganic, general Jovo Divjak and 12 others for masterminding an attack on a withdrawing Yugoslav Army column in Sarajevo Dobrovoljacka street on 3 May 1992.

According to Serb sources, 42 former Yugoslav soldiers were killed, 73 wounded and over 200 taken prisoner in the attack. The prosecutors said it was determined that Ganic and others weren’t responsible for the crime, but vowed to continue the probe of other “known persons” suspected of having committed the crime.

“Such an attitude towards crimes committed against Serbs is intolerable,” Dodik told Bosnian television. It would “almost certainly result in a stalemate in the forming council of ministers (federal government),” he added.

Dodik said he would reactivate his earlier calls for abolition of federal court and prosecutor’s office and may hold a referendum on the issue.

According to Dayton peace accord that ended 1992-1995 war, Bosnia was divided into two entities, a Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb entity Republika Srpska (RS), with broad autonomy.

According to the accord, there was no federal court and prosecutor, which existed only on entities level. But the international community, which still safeguards peace in Bosnia, has imposed a solution on forming federal judiciary institutions.

Dodik, who is RS president, has complained that federal courts were prosecuting only Serbs, while war crimes committed by majority Muslims were being ignored.

Kasim Trnka, Sarajevo professor of constitutional law, said Dodik’s intentions to disobey federal judiciary institutions would equal a state coup.

“If RS institutions on its own deny the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina competences in the judiciary sphere and try to return it to the entities, it would be a state coup and the international community should react,” Trnka, a Muslim, said.