Bosnian Serb PM meets war criminal in Sweden
BANJA LUKA (AFP) - Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik said Tuesday he would visit ex-president Biljana Plavsic in her Swedish jail after the UN war crimes court granted her early release.
Dodik said he would visit Plavsic on Wednesday, adding that he was familiar with the UN tribunal's decision to grant her early release, the SRNA news agency reported.
The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said earlier Tuesday that Plavsic should be granted early release for good behaviour and apparent rehabilitation.
Under Swedish law, the 79-year-old becomes eligible for release from October 27, after serving two-thirds of her term. The tribunal has the final say in the matter.
Plavsic was sentenced in February 2003 after she admitted playing a leading role in a campaign of persecution against Croats and Muslims during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.
She is the highest ranking official of the former Yugoslavia to have acknowledged responsibility for atrocities committed in the 1990s wars that accompanied the former federation's break up.
Muslim victims of Bosnia's war voiced outrage at the UN war crimes court's decision to grant early release to a Bosnian Serb ex-president convicted of crimes against humanity.
"It might be in line with international law, but it has nothing to do with justice," Murat Tahirovic, head of an association of Muslim and Croat war camp prisoners, told AFP.
"How can we explain this to children whose parents had been killed (in Serb-run camps), children who remember their parents only from photos," he said.
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