fre105 - 20021216 - THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS : Former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, right, guarded by a UN guard, sits down in a courtroom at the start of her sentencing hearings at the Inter-national war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Monday 16 December 2002. The hearings are scheduled to last an unprecedented three days, and may hear high-profile witnesses from the West. Plavsic was convicted of persecution, a war crime, in October. EPA PHOTO/AP POOL/FRED ERNST