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Thursday, May 17, 2012

International Justice

Internationalists are aghast that Libyans killed Khaddafi and that Iraqis executed Saddam after a trial. Hell, some are upset we killed Osama bin Laden and dumped his carcass at sea.

Real justice, you see, in all its internationally sanctioned glory, allows a man who committed crimes two decades ago to grow old during his trial while taunting survivors of his crimes:

Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic made a throat-slitting gesture to a woman who lost her son, husband and brothers in the Srebenica massacre at the start of his trial on Wednesday for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two.

Mladic, now 70, flashed a defiant thumbs-up as he entered the courtroom - the last of the main protagonists in the Balkan wars of the 1990s to go on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

This is civilized?