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Life in limbo for Serbian refugees

The United Nations says more than six million people have been living as refugees for more than five years.

More than 90,000 of those are Serbs, who fled Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia during the Balkan wars in the 1990s and now live in the same squalid camps they were originally placed in.

The BBC's Imogen Foulkes says these refugees are in limbo - unable either to return home or begin a new life.

Read entire article at BBC