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Plavsic free

Oct 27, 2009

The head of Sweden’s prison service says former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic has been released after serving two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for persecution.

Lars Nylen says Plavsic was set free Tuesday morning and taken to Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. He says the 79-year-old “was happy to be released.”

The prison service would not confirm a report in Swedish newspaper DN that Plavsic boarded a plane headed for Belgrade.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal last month authorized the early release of Plavsic. She was sentenced in 2003 after pleading guilty to a single count of persecution, a crime against humanity, as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign to drive Muslims and Croats out of Serb-controlled areas of Bosnia.

October 27, 2009
Associated Press

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6 Responses to “Plavsic free”

  1. dony

    The best thing this woman can do is keep quiet and fade into the background,and hope those NATZO pigs don’t require her services again at Dr Karadic’s show trial.

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  2. Predrag

    I wonder what her conviction would mean “IF” Karadzic is proved innocent?

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  3. kanuk

    Karadzic can not be proven innocent! remember, this trial has nothing to do with seeking truth or justice. its just a formality to give some credibility to a desision already made.

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  4. Above all else, she is a traitor.

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  5. Peggy

    If she went against one of her own she is not with us but with them. Them being NATO.
    Can’t belive she is welcomed in Serbia. What’s the deal with Dodik hanging around with her? I thought he had more sense than that.

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  6. Vuk

    If she had any dignity within her, she would have not betrayed her country. So that she can have privligies, and eventually be set free ( her act was similar to the act of Bosnian Musliums( then Serbs), during the Ottaman times). Well Peggy we dont know what Dodik told her in privte, besides she must be ashamed of lieing about her own people, and therefore had probably made alot of apogloys. Also she is a very old woman know as it is, so it doesnt even matter. Everything is on her soul now!

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