"In implementing its expansionist plans the Catholic Church goes as far as to appropriate common ground and illegally erect crosses where they cannot not be erected, with some priests spreading untruths about the Bosniaks and negating them as a nation," Smajkic said at a meeting of young Bosniaks living outside of the country in Mostar.
The Muslim dignitary accused the Croat Defence Council, the Croatian army and the international community of the expulsion of Bosniaks from Mostar.
"Mostar today is burdened by horrible crimes, hatred and the fact that the war-time goal of making Mostar a Croat city has not been abandoned," the daily quoted Smajkic as saying.