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...government of President Laurent Gbagbo since a failed coup on Sept. 19. The fighting has killed hundreds of people, forced thousands from their homes and heightened tensions between the largely Muslim northern regions and the predominantly Christian south. See Also: Cracks in the Ivory NETHERLANDS Guilty Plea Biljana Plavsic, former President of the Serb rump republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina and one of the main defendants at the Hague war-crimes trials, pleaded guilty to charges of crimes against humanity. Plavsic admitted to planning, instigating and aiding the persecution of Muslims and Roman Catholics during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s...
Unlike many of her fellow accused, Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic has voluntarily surrendered herself at the Hague tribunal to stand trial for war crimes. Why did she go willingly...
...options were very limited in this case. Plavsic's problem is that she's not particularly popular at home, and it's difficult to imagine her hiding in small villages in the hills like Radovan Karadzic does, and she can't really seek refuge in Serbia because she's not really popular there, either. It's also possible that the Hague prosecutors have made some sort of deal, and that she will be treated differently because she has surrendered voluntarily and possibly agreed to cooperate with the tribunal. So it was the best she could do under the circumstances. Also...
...know that there's much she can contribute to the indictment of Milosevic, but she can certainly provide additional details on Karadzic, and also on Momcilo Krajisnik, who is also under indictment there after being captured by NATO forces. The indictment against Plavsic is almost identical to the one against Krajisnik - they were both close aides of Karadzic during...
...float back to the top. These men pumped out heavily separatist and anti-Western propaganda while they obstructed the implementation of Dayton's provisions for reunification. Two weeks ago, as the delicately stitched-together nation seemed to be recovering, the Serbs in their republic voted out moderate President Biljana Plavsic, a key part of Western plans to build a unified Bosnia...