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We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

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Aleksander Kwasniewski
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 15
Journalist
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City of Sarajevo
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