Bosnian Serb Wartime Leader Biljana Plavsic Dies Aged 96
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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...
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.
Former President of the Republika Srpska, Bilana Plavšić, convicted of war crimes, passed away this morning in Belgrade at the age of 96. Her funeral is expected to be held in Banja Luka, reports Telegrafi. She was the former dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Sarajevo, a former official of the SDS party and former president of the Serbian People's Alliance (SNS). She pleaded guilty before the Hague Tribunal to persecution on p…
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