Boekpresentatie Olivera Simic: Madam War Criminal. Biljana Plavsic, Serbia's Iron Lady
Op woensdag 22 april presenteert Olivera Simic haar nieuwe boek Madam War Criminal. Biljana Plavsic, Serbia's Iron Lady bij Boekhandel De Vries Van Stockum in Den Haag (Passage 11). Ze gaat in gesprek met Prof. Dr. Alette Smeulers, hoogleraar en auteur van Angstaanjagend normaal.
Let op: de voertaal tijdens deze boekpresentatie is Engels.
Wat: Boekpresentatie (Engelstalig)
Waar: Boekhandel De Vries Van Stockum, Den Haag (Passage 11)
Wanneer: Woensdag 22 april | 18:00 uur
Toegang: Gratis
Aanmelden: Ja, graag via evenementen@devriesvanstockum.nl
Over de auteur
Olivera Simić is a Professor with the Griffith Law School, Australia. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Dr Simić lived through Yugoslav wars (1991-1999). he was nineteen years old, studying her first year of a law degree in Bosnia and Herzegovina when the Bosnian War broke out in 1992. Initially as a refugee and later as a migrant, Dr. Simic lived and studied in Eastern and Western Europe, the USA and South America before coming to Australia in 2006S. Dr Simić teaches international law and transitional justice at Griffith Law School, Griffith University and lives in Brisbane.
Over het boek
A tale of violent terror and chilling unrepentance, from the only woman convicted of crimes against humanity in the Bosnian War. In 2001, Biljana Plavšic 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, Plavšic took a plea bargain. Just one other Bosnian Serb politician at her level was sentenced: Radovan Karadžic himself, President to Plavšic's Vice-President in the autonomous Republika Srpska. Yet before the conflict, Plavšic had been a 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?