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UN Prosecutors: Uphold Mladic's Life Sentence for Srebrenica Massacre

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   U.N. prosecutors urged United Nations judges Wednesday to uphold former
   Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic's life sentence for crimes,
   including genocide, which they say Mladic personally oversaw.

   His lawyers, meanwhile, called for an acquittal or retrial.

   Mladic, 78, was commander of the Main Staff of the Bosnian Serb army
   during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. A U.N. tribunal convicted him in
   November 2017 of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of
   the laws or customs of war for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica
   massacre.

   More than 8,000 ethnic Bosniak men and boys were killed, and up to
   35,000 Bosniak women, children and elderly people were forcibly
   displaced from two villages.

   "Srebrenica was Mladic's operation, and the trial chamber was right to
   conclude that he was criminally responsible for these crimes,"
   prosecutor Laurel Baig said Wednesday, the second and final day of
   appeal hearings.

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