5/29/2023 0 Comments Subsume sentence![]() ![]() She was aware that the key leaders of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ignored these crimes despite the power to prevent and punish them Plavsic disregarded reports of widespread ethnic cleansing and publicly rationalised and justified it. Plavsic, ignored the allegations of crimes committed by their forces: Mrs. The Bosnian Serb leadership, including Mrs. Killings during attacks on towns and villages cruel and inhumane treatment during and after the attacks forced transfer and deportation unlawful detention and killing, forced labour and use of human shields cruel and inhumane treatment and inhumane conditions in detention facilities destruction of cultural and sacred objects and plunder and wanton destruction. ![]() The Bosnian Serb forces, collaborating with the JNA, the MUP of Serbia and paramilitary units to implement the objective of ethnic separation by force, committed the persecutions in a campaign that included: Serving as co-President, thereby supporting and maintaining the government and military at local and national levels through which the objective was implemented encouraging participation by making public pronouncements that force was justified because certain territories within Bosnia and Herzegovina were Serbian by right and Serbs should fear genocide being committed against them byīosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats and inviting and encouraging paramilitaries from Serbia to assist Bosnian Serb forces in effecting ethnic separation by force. The accused supported the objective in various different ways, by: Plavsic embraced and supported the objective andĬontributed to achieving it, but she did not participate in its conception and planning and had a lesser role in its execution than others. There were differences both as to their knowledge of the details and their participation in the execution of the objective. In commenting on the individual roles of the participants in this offence, the Factual Basis states that numerous individuals participated in devising and executing the persecutions. The accused was also active in the Presidency of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and then became a member of the collective and expanded Presidencies of Republika Srpska. Party and she was elected as a Serbian Representative to the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 11 November 1990 until December 1992. However, she very soon rose to become a prominent member of the She was not involved in politics until she joined the Serbian Democratic Party in July 1990. ![]() She had a distinguished academic career as a Professor of Natural Sciences and Dean of Faculty in the University of Sarajevo. Plavsic is now aged 72 years, having been born on 7 July 1930 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Count 3, to which the accused has pleaded guilty, alleges that between 1 July 1991 and 30 December 1992 the accused, acting individually and in concert with others in a joint criminal enterprise, planned, instigated, ordered and aided and abetted persecutions of the Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb populations of 37 municipalities in At the end of the hearing the Trial Chamber adjourned the case to consider sentence. Plavsic’s participation in it was filed with the Plea Agreement.Ī Sentencing Hearing was held between 16 – 18 December 2002. A written Factual Basis for the crime and Mrs. In the Agreement the Prosecutor agreed to move to dismiss the remaining counts of the Indictment following the accused’s plea of guilty and they were subsequentlyĭismissed. The accused’s plea was entered pursuant to a Plea Agreement made between the parties. It does not form part of the Judgement.Īt a Hearing on 2 October 2002 the accused pleaded guilty to Count 3 of the Indictment, persecutions, a crime against humanity. This text was read out by the Presiding Judge. Please find below the text of the summary of the Sentencing Judgement rendered on Thursday 27 February 2003 by Trial Chamber III, consisting of Judge May (presiding), Judge Robinson and Judge Kwon. Mitigating circumstances" Her guilty plea and her acknowledgement of responsibility "should promote reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region as a whole". TRIAL CHAMBER SENTENCES THE ACCUSED TO 11 YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT AND SAYS THAT "NO SENTENCE CAN FULLY REFLECT THE HORROR OF WHAT OCCURRED OR THE TERRIBLE IMPACT ON THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS"īijlana Plavsic participated in "a crime of the utmost gravity, involving a campaign of ethnic separation which resulted in the death of thousands and the expulsion of thousands more in circumstances of great brutality" "Her guilty plea (together with remorse and reconciliation), voluntary surrender, post-conflict conduct and age are substantial ![]()
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