Madam War Criminal: Biljana Plavsic, Serbia's Iron Lady (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781805262862)

In 2001, Biljana Plavsic made history: she became the only female political leader ever prosecuted for mass atrocities. She was the one woman among 161 indictees at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia--and the first since Nuremberg to be convicted by an international court.

Charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, Plavsic took a plea bargain. Just one other Bosnian Serb politician at her level was sentenced: Radovan Karadzic himself, President to Plavsic's Vice-President in the autonomous Republika Srpska. Yet before the conflict, Plavsic had been an globally renowned scientist at the University of Sarajevo, penning journal articles and serving as faculty dean.

This gripping book revolves around hundreds of hours of interviews with a stridently unrepentant war criminal--now in her 90s, and a free woman. How did this biology professor end up heading a vengeful ethno-nationalist movement that murdered tens of thousands?

Author: Olivera Simic
ISBN-10: 1805262866
ISBN-13: 9781805262862
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2026
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 5.00h x 5.50w x 0.30d