She said that over time she had come to realise that "many thousands of innocent people were the victims of organised, systematic efforts to remove Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from territory claimed by Serbs." Because of a "blinding fear" that Serbs might become victims of their neighbours, as in World War II, the Bosnian Serb leadership became victimisers themselves, Plavsic said.
Ona je rekla da je vremenom spoznala da je «više hiljada nevinih ljudi postalo žrtvom organizovanih, sistematskih nastojanja da se uklone bosanski Muslimani i bosanski Hrvati sa teritorija na koje su Srbi imali pretenzije». Zbog «zaslepljujućeg straha» da bi Srbi mogli postati žrtve svojih suseda, kao u Drugom svetkom ratu, samo rukovodstvo bosanskih Srba je postalo odgovorno za žrtve, rekla je Plavšićeva.