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Biljana Plavsic

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The Resume

    (July 7, 1930- )
    Born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
    President of Republika Srpska (July 19, 1996-November 4, 1998)
    Indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for war crimes committed during the Bosnian war (2001)
    Incarcerated at women’s prison Hinseberg in Sweden (June 26, 2003-October 29, 2009)

Why she might be annoying:

    She is a eugenicist who justified the Bosnian genocide by claiming that Bosnians are racially inferior to Serbs.
    She even used it as an excuse to not negotiate with them.
    She has been described as holding even more extremist views than that of her fellow war criminals.
    She stated that she’s willing to let six million Serbs die in order to let another six million live freely.
    Slobodan Milošević’s wife called her a ‘female Mengele’.
    A photo of her stepping on a dead Muslim civilian while kissing Arkan sparked worldwide outrage. (1992)
    She confessed that she lied during her testimony because she couldn’t find anyone to testify on her behalf. (March, 2005)

Why she might not be annoying:

    She is a Fulbright Scholar who spent two years at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell University researching botany.
    She published about 100 scholarly papers during her career as a biologist.
    Like many female heads of state, she is known as the ‘Iron Lady’.
    She opposed communism for subjecting the Serbs to slavery.
    Unlike some of her fellow Bosnian Serb leaders, she supported the Dayton Agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia.
    She was mentioned as ‘significantly rehabilitated’ during her prison term, including accepting responsibility for her crimes. (September 14, 2009)
    The University of Sarajevo stripped her of her degree. (October 28, 2009)

Credit: Big Lenny


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 19 Votes: 68.42% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 26 Votes: 42.31% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 36 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 108 Votes: 82.41% Annoying