Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic dies in Belgrade
The only woman convicted by the Hague tribunal later pleaded guilty to persecution and served part of an 11-year sentence, officials said.
- On Thursday, Biljana Plavsic, a former senior wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs, died in Belgrade at age 96, the Serb-led Republika Srpska broadcaster RTRS reported.
- During the 1992-5 war, Plavsic served as vice-president of the Serb-led Republika Srpska and was later 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," claiming she only admitted guilt to have charges dropped.
- Following her 2009 release from prison, Plavsic lived a reclusive life in Belgrade, remaining largely politically inactive while occasionally granting interviews to media.
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This former professor of biology was the only woman convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for war crimes and played a leading role in the massacres of the 1992-1995 war, before a reversal against her former allies.
Former Bosnian Serb war criminal dead at 96 – The Horn News
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... Read More The post Former Bosnian Serb war criminal dead at 96 appeared first on The Horn News - Proudly American, Fiercely Independent.
The ex-president of Republika Srpska died at the age of 96.
The former President of the Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Biljana Plavsic, sentenced for war crimes, died in Belgrade on Thursday, at the age of 96, announced the Serbian public television station RTRS, broadcasts AFP.
Former president of the Republic of Bosnian Serbs Biljana Plavsic, sentenced for war crimes, died on Thursday in Belgrade, at the age of 96, announced the public television channel of the Bosnian Serbs RTRS. ...
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