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Biljana Plavšić, the former president of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska and the only woman convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, died Thursday in Belgrade at age 96, regional media reported.
Plavšić, a former biology professor and dean at the University of Sarajevo, served as vice president and later president of Republika Srpska during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. She was convicted in 2003 of crimes against humanity for her role in the persecution of Bosniaks and Croats on political, racial, and religious grounds, receiving an 11-year sentence. After serving two-thirds of her term in Sweden, she was released in 2009 and lived in Belgrade, away from public life.
She initially admitted guilt as part of a plea agreement, though she later retracted her confession in a 2006 interview with Swedish magazine *Vi*. Plavšić, once a staunch nationalist who publicly defended the persecution of non-Serbs as a "natural phenomenon," later broke with her former allies, including Radovan Karadžić, and led opposition efforts from Banja Luka.
Her funeral will be held in Banja Luka, according to RTRS, the public broadcaster of Republika Srpska . Milorad Dodik, the entity’s former president, said on X that her death recalled the struggles of the era that led to Republika Srpska’s creation .
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96 évesen meghalt a Bosznia-hercegovinai Szerb Köztársaság volt elnöke Biljana Plavšić 2003-ban bűnösnek vallotta magát politikai, faji és vallási alapon elkövetett üldöztetésben, börtönbe vonult, szabadulása után nem politizált többet.
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rmf24 · about 2 hours ago
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