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Biljana Plavsic, a Former Bosnian Serb Political Leader, Has Died
Biljana Plavsic, a Bosnian Serb, pleaded guilty to one count of crimes against humanity. She later recanted and said she “would do the same again.”
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Biljana Plavsic, a Bosnian Serb, pleaded guilty to one count of crimes against humanity. She later recanted and said she “would do the same again.”
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik says Bosnia and Herzegovina is ‘dead’ at a final campaign rally ahead of elections.
Plavsic, who died this week, was the only high-ranking woman political leader prosecuted for mass atrocities by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. She expressed sorrow for these acts in court – but then changed her mind.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic has died in Belgrade at 96
Wartime vice-president of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity, the only woman ever convicted of war crimes by the Hague Tribunal, dies in Belgrade – to the end maintaining she had 'done nothing wrong'.