Bosnia's peace envoy imposes jail terms for genocide denial

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/

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Bosnia's 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.

The decree by High Representative Valentin Inzko sets jail terms of up to five years for anyone who "publicly condones, denies, grossly trivialises or tries to justify" the genocide or war crimes committed during Bosnia's 1992-95 conflict.