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However, in an interview she gave in March 2005 to the Banja Luka Alternativna Television, she admitted she had lied because she couldn't prove her innocence, as she was unable to find witnesses who would testify on her behalf.

She repeated this in an interview for Swedish Vi magazine in January 2009.

She claimed to have plead guilty in order to avoid the remaining charges against her, including genocide.

Her pleading guilty led the Hague tribunal to lower her sentence and drop the remaining charges.

Plavšić would have likely have been sentenced to 20-25 years in prison if she had not plead guilty and all eight charges were taken into account.