贝尔格莱德，塞尔维亚——据波黑塞族公共媒体报道，前波黑塞族领导人比利亚娜·普拉夫希奇因在1992年至1995年波斯尼亚战争期间所犯暴行中的作用，在联合国法庭承认犯有反人类罪中的迫害罪。她已在塞尔维亚首都贝尔格莱德去世，享年96岁。
BELGRADE, Serbia — Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic, who pleaded guilty at a United Nations tribunal to persecution as a crime against humanity for her role in atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, has died in Serbia’s capital Belgrade, according to Bosnian Serb public media. She was 96. Plavsic was one of the key Bosnian Serb high officials who implemented a peace agreement signed in Dayton, Ohio, while she was serving as a president of the Bosnian Serb political entity, Republika Srpska, just after the war ended.
普拉夫希奇是波黑塞族高级官员中的关键人物之一。战争结束后不久，她在担任波黑塞族政治实体塞族共和国总统期间，推动落实了在俄亥俄州代顿签署的和平协议。
During the war she served on the Bosnian Serb leadership council. Considered by Western officials as much more liberal than other Bosnian Serb leaders, she became a vocal opponent of wartime Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic.
战争期间，她曾任波黑塞族领导委员会成员。西方官员认为，她比其他波黑塞族领导人更加自由派，因此成为战时波黑联合国法院表示，普拉夫希奇认罪并承认自身责任，“应有助于促进波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那及整个地区的和解”。美国前国务卿玛德琳·奥尔布赖特在一次量刑听证会上表示，普拉夫希奇积极支持代顿和平协议。据法院的一份声明，奥尔布赖特说：“在非常艰难的时候，当有人想要摧毁代顿协议时，她仍坚持维护该协议。”
Nonetheless, she was indicted in 2000 by The Hague-based U.N. tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for her alleged role in the wartime campaign to carve out a separate Serb entity in Bosnia. She voluntarily surrendered to face justice in 2001, and later pleaded guilty to the crime against humanity of persecution during the war. Other charges were withdrawn. “Mrs. Plavsic disregarded reports of widespread ethnic cleansing and publicly rationalized and justified it,” the U.N. court said after she was sentenced. “She was aware that the key leaders of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ignored these crimes despite the power to prevent and punish them.”She was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment and was released in 2009 after serving two-thirds of her sentence.
塞族共和国公共广播电视台RTRS周四报道，波斯尼亚塞族领导人米洛拉德·多迪克在得知普拉夫希奇去世的消息后表示哀悼，并称她是他的密切伙伴，理应获得国家最高礼遇。
The U.N. court said that Plavsic’s guilty plea and her acknowledgement of responsibility “should promote reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region as a whole.”Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told a sentencing hearing that Plavsic actively supported the Dayton peace agreement.
多迪克说：“遗憾的是，她在海牙法庭上被不公正地追责。”去年，波黑法院因多迪克试图推动塞族共和国脱离波黑而禁止其担任公职。“但这是其中一种趋势：任何在塞族共和国担任职务的人都会受到追责，即使其本人没有犯罪。”普拉夫希奇去世仅几周前，前波斯尼亚塞族军队领导人拉特科·姆拉迪奇因在波斯尼亚战争期间犯有种族灭绝罪及其他罪行而被定罪，随后在羁押期间死亡。
She “stood up for that at times when it was very difficult, when there were those who wanted to destroy the Dayton Accords,” Albright said, according to a court statement. Republika Srpska’s public broadcaster RTRS reported on Thursday that the Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik had expressed his condolences at the news of Plavsic’s death, saying that she was his close associate and deserved full state honors. “Unfortunately, she was unjustly held accountable before the Hague tribunal,” said Dodik, whom a Bosnian court barred from public office last year for his efforts to separate Republika Srpska from Bosnia. “But that was part of a trend in which anyone who held a position in Republika Srpska was held accountable, even if they had personally committed no crime.”Plavsic’s death comes just weeks after former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic died in detention after being convicted of genocide and other crimes during the Bosnian war.
在南斯拉夫开始解体、普拉夫希奇踏入政坛之前，她曾在萨拉热窝大学担任自然科学教授和学院院长。获释出狱后，普拉夫希奇退出公共生活，居住在贝尔格莱德。
Before entering politics as the former Yugoslavia crumbled, Plavsic was a professor of natural sciences and faculty dean at the University of Sarajevo. Since her release from prison, Plavsic had withdrawn from public life and lived in Belgrade.