Biljana Plavšić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Biljana Plavšić

former president of Republika Srpska and convicted war criminal

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1930

Place of Birth: Tuzla, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Profession: teacher, politician, university teacher

Nationality: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Biljana Plavšic (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????? ???????; 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.
Plavšic is, together with Radovan Karadžic, the highest ranking Bosnian Serb politician to be sentenced.
Before entering politics, she taught biology at the University of Sarajevo.