UN prosecutor seeks life term for Radovan Karadzic at appeal hearing

A UN prosecution lawyer has urged appeal judges to convict former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on a second genocide count and increase his 40-year sentence for overseeing Serb atrocities during the Bosnian war to a life term.

Prosecutor Katrina Gustafson told a five-judge appellate panel at the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals that Karadzic "abused his immense power to spill the blood of countless victims", adding: "Justice requires that he receive the highest possible sentence - a life sentence."