UN prosecutors demand life sentence for Gen. Ratko Mladic
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — U.N. prosecutors on Wednesday demanded a life sentence for Gen. Ratko Mladic, telling judges that they should convict and imprison the former Bosnian Serb military chief for orchestrating atrocities throughout Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.
Prosecutor Alan Tieger told judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia that it would be “an insult to the victims, living and dead, and an affront to justice to impose any sentence other than the most severe available under law: A life sentence.”
Tieger was speaking at the end of prosecutors’ closing statements at the conclusion of Mladic’s trial on charges including genocide, murder and terror.
Mladic’s defence attorneys will deliver their closing statements before the three-judge panel retires to consider verdicts, which are expected late next year.