War Criminal's Sentencing: US vs. Bosnia

0:00Not a demonic, a former Bosnian army guard, faces sentencing after pleading guilty to lying on her immigration forms to hide her role in prisoner, abuses during the 1990s Yugoslav Wars. She served in the Zulfikar unit at Mount Eagman, where ex-prisoners accused her of beatings and other mistreatment that led to at least one death. After moving to the U.S. in 1997, she got citizenship while working almost 10 years in a harford grocery warehouse. Others detailed how she used fists, boots, wood, and rifles on detainees, plus forced humiliations. They want federal judge Kerry Dooley to apply newer sentencing rules retroactively, pushing for nine years behind bars, citing similar cases from Ethiopia, Liberia, and Bosnia that handed out three to ten years. Her lawyer argues for just probation, saying she was a 21-year-old pulled into a brutal ethnic cleansing war defending her home. He claims the U.S. can judge her harshly while ignoring its own history of abuses in places

1:03like Gaza and Lebanon. Earlier this week in Bridgeport Federal Court, both sides clashed over guidelines from 2012 that capped punishment at six months versus. Today's tougher standards for war-crime cover-ups. With her citizenship already stripped, to manicads for deportation to Bosnia no matter the ruling, closing a chapter on old war ghosts catching up. In American courts, you've been listening to Hartford News today, AI-powered local news.