Biljana Plavšić
| Biljana Plavšić | |
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| 2nd President of Republika Srpska | |
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In office 19 July 1996 – 4 November 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Radovan Karadžić |
| Succeeded by | Nikola Poplašen |
| Serb Member of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
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In office 1990–1992 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Nenad Kecmanović |
| Personal details | |
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7 July 1930 Tuzla, Drina Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Political party | Serb National Alliance (1997-2006) |
| Other political affiliations |
Serb Democratic Party (1990–1997) |
| Religion | Serbian Orthodox |
Biljana Plavšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Плавшић; born 7 July 1930) is a former president of Republika Srpska who was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War. She plea-bargained with the ICTY and was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2003, to be served in a Swedish prison.
She was released on 27 October 2009 after serving two-thirds of her sentence. Plavšić is, together with Radovan Karadžić, the highest ranking Bosnian Serb politician to be sentenced. Before entering politics, she taught biology at the University of Sarajevo.
Plavšić was a university professor teaching biology at the University of Sarajevo and acted as Head of Department of Biology. She is a Fulbright Scholar, and as such she spent two years at Boyce-Thompson institute at Cornell University in New York doing botany research. She then specialized in electron microscopy in London, and plant virology in Prague and Bari. A highly accomplished scientist, she published over one hundred scientific works and papers which have been widely cited in scholarly literature and textbooks.
Plavšić was a member of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS). She was the first female member of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving from 18 November 1990 until April 1992 after having been elected in the first multi-party elections in 1990 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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