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Dropping charges for the deaths of children  

Fri, Jul 10 2009 09:59 CET byKevin Beck 1053 Views 1 Comment
Sir

It is disgusting that the International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands, is strongly considering dropping genocide charges against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.

The Tribunal is set to run out of funding  and to close in less than two years. This presents a major problem for a possible long trial for Karadzic’s crimes, which include responsibility for the July 1995 executions of 8000 Bosnian men and boys from the city of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Hague might possibly drop the Srebrenica genocide charges and instead proceed to try him on genocide charges for his role in the 1992-1995 siege of Bosnia’s capital city of Sarajevo.

If Karadzic escapes genocide charges for murdering thousands of children who were killed by his Serb army forces, it will be a major insult to humanity and to the victims of the assault. Lining up children, thousands at a time, and gunning them down in cold blood, is a horrible crime that will be made even worse if the main war criminal associated with the killings has charges and responsibility dropped.
 

Kevin Beck
Las Vegas, Nevada

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Anonymous Valeri Sat, Aug 08 2009 07:59 CET
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Oh, Bulgaria doesn't lock up criminals!

The tribunal will run out of money in two years.... cry me a river! How many years does it take to prove that some one is responsible for 8,000 deaths?

Now you know what is like not to have enough money for prosecution, and hopefully will hold your nasty racist fire at Bulgaria next time a criminal goes free.


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