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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Bosnia\u2019s outgoing international peace overseer decreed amendments to its criminal code on Friday to allow jail terms for the denial of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, a frequently expressed view among nationalist Serbs.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: Valentin Inzko, Bosnia’s international peace envoy, speaks during a Reuters interview in his office in Sarajevo, December 12, 2016. Picture taken December 12. REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic\/<\/figcaption>

The decree by High Representative Valentin Inzko sets jail terms of up to five years for anyone who \u201cpublicly condones, denies, grossly trivialises or tries to justify\u201d the genocide or war crimes committed during Bosnia\u2019s 1992-95 conflict.<\/p>\n

In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces seized the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica in the country\u2019s east and killed about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys they took prisoner.<\/p>\n

It was the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two and was judged an act of genocide by two international courts.<\/p>\n

Inzko, whose 12 years in office end on Aug. 1 when he will be replaced by Germany\u2019s Christian Schmidt, can impose laws and fire officials under the 1995 peace treaty that divided Bosnia into Bosniak-Croat and Serb entities.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenocide in Srebrenica, war crimes and crimes against humanity…must not be forgotten or denied,\u201d his decree read.<\/p>\n

It was hailed by top Bosniak politicians and condemned by Bosnian Serbs.<\/p>\n

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, a member of Bosnia\u2019s tripartite presidency, said the decree might lead to the dissolution of the former Yugoslav republic. He repeatedly denied that genocide had occurred in Srebrenica.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the nail in Bosnia\u2019s coffin,\u201d he told a news conference. \u201cThe Republika Srpska has no other option but to start the…dissolution,\u201d he said, referring to the semi-autonomous Serb region of Bosnia.<\/p>\n

Sefik Dzaferovic, Bosniak member of Bosnia\u2019s presidency, said Inzko had \u201cfulfilled his obligation to the victims, his conscience, but also to the Dayton peace agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decree also envisages jail terms for the \u201crecognition… (and giving of) mementos, or any privileges\u201d to convicted war criminals.<\/p>\n

Based in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, the Office of the High Representative was established as part of the Dayton accord that ended a war in which 100,000 people died.<\/p>\n

The peace deal left Bosnia split between the Bosniak-Croat Federation and the Serb Republic, linked by a relatively weak, tripartite inter-ethnic presidency.<\/p>\n

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