FORMER Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic, who expressed remorse for the horrors committed against non-Serbs during the Bosnian war, was sentenced yesterday to 11 years in prison.

Biljana Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who expressed remorse for the horrors committed against non-Serbs during the Bosnian war, was today jailed for 11 years by the UN war crimes court.

Biljana Plavsic, once called Bosnia’s “iron lady,” was due to be sentenced for war crimes today.

THE “unimaginable” rapes, killings and camps of the 1992-5 Bosnian war evoked the horrors of World War II, former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright told the UN war crimes tribunal yesterday.

Abigail Levene and Paul Gallagher, The Hague

Former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic was today facing sentencing hearing for war crimes at the UN tribunal in The Hague.

Slobodan Milosevic has refused to undergo a psychiatric examination that would test his ability to stand his war crimes trial.

One of the chief suspects at the International War Crimes Tribunal has admitted to committing a crime against humanity.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is set to become the first woman to appear before a United Nations war crimes tribunal.