Serbian president meets convicted war criminal

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AP Belgrade
Last Updated : Jan 12 2017 | 1:02 AM IST
Serbia's president has met a convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal urging the protection of rights for the Serbs living in the Balkan region.
The meeting between Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and wartime top Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo Krajisnik today reflects the current resurgence of nationalist stands that led to the wars in the 1990s, leaving more than 100,000 people dead.
Krajisnik spent 13 1/2 years in prison for persecuting and forcibly expelling non-Serbs during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. He was released in 2013 after the conviction by the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands.
Krajisnik said after the meeting that Bosnia "has become an impossible state."
A 1995 US-sponsored peace agreement made Bosnia a union of Bosnian Serb and Muslim-Croat regions.

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First Published: Jan 12 2017 | 1:02 AM IST

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