World justice is failing the innocent when tyrants kill with impunity by The Guardian News editorial Topic: World justice is failing the innocent when tyrants kill with impunity By: The Guardian News editorial Publish Date: Sunday, 17 December 2017 Published on : The Guardian (UK) World justice is failing the innocent when tyrants kill with impunity The recent conviction of Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb commander, on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the 1990s may come to be viewed as a high-point for global justice. Mladić’s life sentence for his leading role in ethnic cleansing operations in Bosnia, the battle for Sarajevo, and the massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica was fully deserved. But this symbolic success cannot hide the fact that the international criminal justice system is under siege from within and without. In 2017, its problems grew worse. Mladić’s conviction ...
Comments
Post a Comment