N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad ‘s prosecutor general Friday requested a 25-year prison sentence for Succès Masra, the country’s former prime minister and opposition leader accused of inciting racial violence and other charges.

Masra and dozens of co-defendants, mostly people from the same Ngambaye ethnic group, are on trial accused of causing a clash between herders and farmers in May in Logone Occidental in the southwest of the country. The fighting left 35 people dead and six others injured.

Masra has denied the charges against him.

“We believe that … the criminal court will be able to draw the consequences of all the statements that have been made against the client and will render the justice that we hope to be rendered on behalf of the Chadian people,” Kadjilembay Francis, Masra’s law

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