15 to 25 Years Urged for Former Serb Leader
From Times Wire Reports
U.N. prosecutors called for 15 to 25 years in jail for former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, but defense lawyers at the Hague tribunal said that was tantamount to a life sentence.
Closing a pre-sentencing hearing for the 72-year-old, who has admitted crimes against humanity, prosecutors stressed the horrors wreaked on non-Serbs in the 1992-95 Bosnian war but said Plavsic’s guilty plea was a mitigating factor. The defense asked for an eight-year term. A decision is expected next month.
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