Serbian killer, torturer faces Hague sentencing

AMSTERDAM - A Bosnian Serb former police chief who admits murdering, torturing and sexually assaulting Muslims and Croats is to be sentenced by The Hague tribunal today for crimes against humanity.

Opposing legal teams are seeking five and 12 years in jail for Stevan Todorovic, aged 43, who last December reversed a not guilty plea entered in 1998, though in theory he could get life.

He admitted persecuting Muslims and Croats in 1992 and 1993 while chief of police in the Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac. He was arrested in September 1998.

"By pleading guilty to this charge, Stevan Todorovic also admitted that he had committed one murder, acts of torture, a large number of beatings, and had forced several men to commit sexual acts with each other," prosecutors wrote in a sentencing recommendation filed in April.

- REUTERS

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