ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Aug 30 (Hina) - Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have demanded a life sentence for the former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament, Momcilo Krajisnik, who is
charged with genocide and war crimes that were committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1992-1995 war, news agencies reported on Wednesday.
ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Aug 30 (Hina) - Prosecutors at the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have demanded a life
sentence for the former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament, Momcilo
Krajisnik, who is charged with genocide and war crimes that were committed in
Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1992-1995 war, news agencies reported on
Wednesday. "Each count of the indictment individually, if found to
be true, merits the highest possible sentence," prosecutor Alan Tieger said in
his closing arguments at the Hague-based court on Tuesday evening.
Tieger said that the gravity of the crimes and lack of mitigating
circumstances meant that Krajisnik "should be sentenced for life."
Prosecutors described Krajisnik as a member of an inner circle of
Bosnian Serb leaders who masterminded a campaign of persecution and murder
against the Bosnian Muslim and Croat populations with the aim of creating an
ethnically pure Serb state in the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The trial of Momcilo Krajisnik started in February 2004.