Let's Send "The Master Of Hell", Ratko "The Rat" Mladic, Straight To Hell!
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A master of hell
The arrest Thursday of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general charged with orchestrating many of the worst massacres in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s, should be applauded by all who want perpetrators of crimes against humanity held to account.
Mladic has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague in the Netherlands, charged with the executions of thousands of Bosnian and Croatian men, mutilation and rape of women, and murder of children. A war crimes tribunal judge spoke during the 1995 indictment of a man forced to eat the liver of his own grandson.
Mladic now faces extradition to stand trial in The Hague, where he would face life imprisonment, if convicted of genocide and other crimes. Former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic died while on trial before the tribunal, and the Bosnian Serb leader at the time of the civil wars, Radovan Karadzic, is now on trial in the Dutch capital.
Coming 50 years after the end of World War II and what Europeans believed would be the last mass murders on the continent, the savagery of “ethnic cleansing” in the Balkans especially shocked Europe. To make matters worse, the bloodiest atrocity — the 1995 massacre of as many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, under Mladic's direction — occurred in what was supposed to be an internationally guaranteed safe zone guarded by Dutch soldiers.
For Europe, Mladic's apprehension helps bring its nightmare to an end. For Serbia, the arrest eases the transformation from pariah state to a respected nation — and may clear the path for admission to the European Union.
For civilized societies everywhere, putting Mladic on trial would underscore that justice is the ultimate answer to despotic brutality.
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A master of hell
The arrest Thursday of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general charged with orchestrating many of the worst massacres in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s, should be applauded by all who want perpetrators of crimes against humanity held to account.
Mladic has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague in the Netherlands, charged with the executions of thousands of Bosnian and Croatian men, mutilation and rape of women, and murder of children. A war crimes tribunal judge spoke during the 1995 indictment of a man forced to eat the liver of his own grandson.
Mladic now faces extradition to stand trial in The Hague, where he would face life imprisonment, if convicted of genocide and other crimes. Former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic died while on trial before the tribunal, and the Bosnian Serb leader at the time of the civil wars, Radovan Karadzic, is now on trial in the Dutch capital.
Coming 50 years after the end of World War II and what Europeans believed would be the last mass murders on the continent, the savagery of “ethnic cleansing” in the Balkans especially shocked Europe. To make matters worse, the bloodiest atrocity — the 1995 massacre of as many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, under Mladic's direction — occurred in what was supposed to be an internationally guaranteed safe zone guarded by Dutch soldiers.
For Europe, Mladic's apprehension helps bring its nightmare to an end. For Serbia, the arrest eases the transformation from pariah state to a respected nation — and may clear the path for admission to the European Union.
For civilized societies everywhere, putting Mladic on trial would underscore that justice is the ultimate answer to despotic brutality.
Labels: Civil War, Crime, Genocide, Punishment
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