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Prosecutors of international court want life in prison for Mladic

Xinhua, December 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Prosecutors of an international court in The Hague said Wednesday that they would consider imposing a life imprisonment for Ratko Mladic, former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army .

Prosecutor Alan Tieger, of International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), told a three-judge panel that Mladic should be given "the most severe available under law -- A life sentence".

Mladic was accused of two counts of genocide, five crimes against humanity and four violations of the laws or customs of war committed during the Bosnian War in Bosnia and Herzegovina from May 1992 to late 1995.

Mladic was arrested in Serbia on May 26, 2011. His trail started on May 16, 2012 and suffered from delays, partly due to his bad health.

The trial entered its final phase on Monday, with the now 74-year-old Mladic looking physically fragile.

The defense team will begin their closing arguments on Friday and will continue on Monday and Tuesday. The parties will each have one-and-a-half hours on Thursday for their final comments.

A trial judgment in the Madlic case is expected in November 2017.

In March this year, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in prison by the ICTY judges. Endit