The Hague Tribunal has approved the early release of the former president of the Republika Srpska, Biljana Plavsic, 79, after serving two-thirds of her sentence.
Plavsic was the president of the Republika Srpska from 1996 to 1998, and she voluntarily surrendered to The Hague Tribunal in January 2001. In 2003, she pleaded guilty to crimes against humanity and the persecution of non-Serbs in Bosnia in the 1992-95 war. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison and served her term in a Swedish prison.
That war was the bloodiest conflict in the former Yugoslavia after its disintegration in 1990-1992.
The case of Plavsic is unique. First, she is so far the only woman to have been sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for crimes against humanity. Second, she is the only high-ranking Serb leader to plead guilty and ask forgiveness.
Source RIA Novosti
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