Holocaust scholar testifies against former Serb president

Tuesday, December 17, 2002

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace laureate who survived the Nazi death camps, urged a strong punishment for former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic, telling a U.N. tribunal the sentence it imposes for her war crimes will set a standard for centuries.

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