BOSNIA: The war crimes indictment against Ms Biljana Plavsic lists an extraordinary litany of human rights abuses linked to her between July 1991 and December 30th, 1992.
It charges that she and others - notably Dr Radovan Karadzic, a psychiatrist and Bosnian Serb leader, and Mr Momcilo Krajisnik, president of the Bosnian Serb parliament - devised a plan to secure control of parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina by creating conditions of life that were impossible for Muslims and Croats. These involved persecution and terror tactics, that would have the effect of encouraging non-Serbs to leave; the deportation of those who were reluctant to leave; and the liquidation of others.
By December 1992, this resulted in the death or forced departure of a significant portion of the Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb groups from those municipalities.
The indictment says the three were responsible for: the killing of Muslims and Croats during and after attacks on a number of named municipalities, and killing of people in and after they had been taken away from camps and detention facilities;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to Muslims and Croats held in camps and during their interrogation there and at police stations and military barracks, where detainees were continuously subjected to, or forced to witness, inhumane acts including murder, sexual violence, torture, beatings and robbery; and the detention of Muslims and Croats under conditions calculated to destroy those national groups.
The text of the indictment may be read at http://www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/pla-ii000407e.htm