Former Bosnian Serb Leader Biljana Plavsic Dies in Belgrade – WTOP News
She was the only woman convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and served two-thirds of an 11-year sentence.
- Biljana Plavsic, a former senior wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs, died on Thursday in Belgrade at age 96, reported RTRS, the public broadcaster of the Serb-led Republika Srpska.
- During the 1992-5 war, Plavsic served as vice-president of the Serb-led Republika Srpska and was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for persecuting Bosniaks, Croats, and non-Serbs.
- Plavsic remains the only woman convicted of wartime crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; she served two-thirds of her sentence in Sweden after her 2003 transfer.
- Despite her guilty plea, Plavsic later told a Swedish magazine she had "done nothing wrong," telling BIRN in 2019 that she tried to "forget that period" and could not remember expressing remorse.
- Following her 2009 release from prison, Plavsic lived a reclusive life in Belgrade, remaining largely inactive in public life while occasionally granting interviews to various media outlets.
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Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic dies in Belgrade – WTOP News
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic, who pleaded guilty at a United Nations tribunal to persecution as a crime against humanity for her role in atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, has died in Serbia’s capital Belgrade, according to Bosnian Serb public media. She was 96. Plavsic was one of the...
WAR criminal Biljana Plavšić has died at the age of 96. An unusual story connects her to the legendary boxer.
Biljana Plavšić, a former president of the Republic of Serbia who was convicted of crimes against humanity during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Hague International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, died in Belgrade at the age of 96, Serbian media reported.
After her release from prison, she lived in Belgrade and only occasionally appeared in public.
SNSD President Milorad Dodik expressed his condolences on the death of the former President Biljana Plavšić, saying that she was a debt to the Republika Srpska, and that she deserved all the state honors.
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