Amnesty – 1997

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Amnesty – 1997

1997

Intermediate Implementation Intermediate implementation

The OHR High Representative informed the UN Secretary General that the Republika Srpska was yet to amend its amnesty law to extend coverage to persons who deserted or avoided military conscription. According to the report, such delays would “pose a substantial obstacle to return of refugees and displaced people and contribute to ethnic division (sic).”1

  1. “5th Report of the High Representative for Implementation of the Bosnian Peace Agreement to the Secretary-General of the United Nations,” Office of the High Representative (OHR), 1997, accessed May 2, 2011, http://www.ohr.int/other-doc/hr-reports/default.asp?content_id=3668.