Life and political legacy of Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic

Plavsic, who was a biology professor during the war in Bosnia that cost the lives of approximately 100 thousand people and displaced 2.2 million people, was known as a Serbian nationalist.

Plavsic, who was in the inner circle of wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and acted together with Karadzic, who was later sentenced to life imprisonment, openly advocated the targeting of non-Serbian peoples.

Plavsic described the purge of non-Serb elements as a "natural phenomenon" and not a war crime.

Plavsic, who turned to cooperation with the international community in 1996 after the Dayton Peace Agreement, made a radical change of line.

He became the head of the opposition against his former hawkish allies, making Banja Luka his headquarters, away from the nationalist stronghold of Pale.

Plavsic, who served as president of the Republika Srpska between 1996 and 1998, adopted a pro-Western attitude.

Plavsic, who began to withdraw from politics after his party lost votes in the local elections in 2000, resigned from his position as a member of parliament in the Bosnian Serb parliament in December of the same year.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, in his statement on the