Prosecutors in the trial of a Croatian concentration camp commander asked that the defendant receive the maximum sentence of 20 years. Their request came Tuesday during closing arguments in the trial of Dinko Sakic, who is accused of crimes against humanity for his actions when he ran the Jasenovac camp in 1944. Sakic claims that a typhus epidemic and other natural causes caused the estimated tens of thousands of deaths at the camp.
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