 He made many visits to Serb soldiers in Bosnia to give his support.Amfilohije often praised the wartime Bosnian Serb leadership such as Biljana Plavšić, whom he labelled as the "Kosovo Maiden" and Radovan Karadžić.Amfilohije invited the Serb paramilitary leader Arkan (Željko Ražnatović) and his group the Tigers, a paramilitary group on two separate occasions to guard the Cetinje Monastery in 1991 and 1992.