46-year sentence for genocide 'too lenient'

Prosecutors at a UN war crimes appeals court today argued that a Bosnian Serb general’s 46 year prison sentence for genocide is too lenient and should be replaced with life.

46-year sentence for genocide 'too lenient'

Prosecutors at a UN war crimes appeals court today argued that a Bosnian Serb general’s 46 year prison sentence for genocide is too lenient and should be replaced with life.

Radislav Krstic, 55, the only man convicted of the ”crime of crimes” during the Balkan wars, also appealed both his conviction and the sentence handed down by the UN tribunal in August 2001.

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