Biljana Plavšić
Politician
1930 –
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Who is Biljana Plavšić?
Biljana Plavšić is a former president of Republika Srpska and convicted war criminal. She is the highest ranking Bosnian Serb politician to be sentenced. She was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War. She plea bargained with the ICTY and only served two-thirds of her sentence in Sweden and was released 27 October 2009. Before her political engagements, she taught biology at the University of Sarajevo.
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- Born
- Jul 7, 1930
Tuzla - Also known as
- Biljana Plavsic
- Religion
- Serbian Orthodox Church
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Ethnicity
- Serbs
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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