Outrage at early release of Bosnian Serb ‘Iron Lady’

MUSLIM victims of the Bosnian war have voiced outrage at the decision to grant early release to a Bosnian Serb ex-president convicted of crimes against humanity.

Outrage at early release of Bosnian Serb ‘Iron Lady’

“It might be in line with international law, but it has nothing to do with justice,” said Murat Tahirovic, head of an association of Muslim and Croat war camp prisoners. “How can we explain this to children whose parents had been killed [in Serb-run camps], children who remember their parents only from photos?”

The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced yesterday that Biljana Plavsic should be granted early release from her 11-year jail term for good behaviour and apparent rehabilitation.

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