Biljana Plavšić
Biljana Plavšić | |
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| 2nd President of Republika Srpska | |
| In office 19 July 1996 – 4 November 1998 | |
| Vice President | Nikola Koljević Dragoljub Mirjanić[1] |
| Preceded by | Radovan Karadžić |
| Succeeded by | Nikola Poplašen |
| 1st Serb Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| In office 20 December 1990 – 9 April 1992 Serving with Nikola Koljević | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Nenad Kecmanović |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 July 1930 Tuzla, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Political party | Serb National Alliance (1997–2006) Serb Democratic Party (1990–1997) |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
Biljana Plavšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Плавшић; born 7 July 1930) is a Serbian politician. She was the President of Republika Srpska between 1996 and 1998, who was later indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes committed in the Bosnian War.
She plea-bargained with the ICTY and was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2003.[2] She was released on October 27, 2009 after serving two-thirds of her sentence. Plavšić is, together with Radovan Karadžić,[3] the highest ranking Bosnian Serb politician to be sentenced.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Political Handbook of the World 1998
- ↑ Traynor, Ian (27 October 2009). "Leading Bosnian Serb war criminal released from Swedish prison". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ↑ Karadzic sentenced to 40 years for genocide
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