The Hindu : Plavsic to serve term in Sweden

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Plavsic to serve term in Sweden

STOCKHOLM: A former Bosnian Serb leader sentenced to 11 years in prison for her role in persecuting Bosnian Croats and Muslims, will serve her time in a Swedish prison, the Justice Ministry said on Friday. Biljana Plavsic (72), was convicted in February for her part in the Bosnian war — the worst bloodletting in Europe since World War II, which claimed an estimated 200,000 lives. Once known as Bosnia's ``Iron Lady,'' she is the highest-ranking politician from what used to be Yugoslavia to be sentenced by The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal and the first top former leader to plead guilty there. Those convicted serve their sentences in European countries that have volunteered to keep them under lock and key. Ten others are serving prison in Germany, Finland, Spain, Austria, Norway and Italy. Plavsic, once the closest politician to wartime Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, surrendered to U.N. officials in January 2001, pledging to fight eight counts of war crimes. Karadzic remains at large. — AP

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