"Bosanska Posavina is not yet lost for Croats. Both international and local officials should only show more willingness to help refugees to come back," Bishop Komarica said in an interview published in September's issue of the Catholic montly 'Svjetlo Rijeci'.
The dignitary has frequently pointed the finger at international politicians as well as "domestic politicians including Croatian ones" for not caring about the return of people to their prewar homes in northern Bosnia.
Recently, Bishop Komarica and parish priests in a wider Derventa area (a town in Bosanksa Posavina) have sent a memorandum to international and Bosnian officials urging them to consider the state of affairs which he described as disastrous in the return of Croat Catholics to Posavina's areas under the control of the Republic of Srpska.
The memo reads that "the eradication of one people from the area where it has lived for centuries" is at work.