HAGUE TRIBUNAL AND THE TRIAL OF THE ‘CENTURY’; KARADŽIĆ PROVED GUILTY OF GENOCIDE, ŠEŠELJ ACQUITTED OF THE CHARGES

Abstract

UDK 347. 951:341. 645. 5
         32:929 Karadžić R.

Moral and legal contradictio in adiecto of Hague verdicts is best manifested in rulings of the ‘century’ in cases against most responsible perpetrators of genocide and unprecedented crimes, which they planned, organised, encouraged and directly commanded. After thirteen years in hiding from justice with false name and physiognomy crucial Hague inductee, Radovan Karadzic was arrested in 2008, whereas Vojislav Šešelj was arrested five years earlier, in 2003. Before this, 161 persons were indicted by Hague Tribunal for war crimes, of which more than half (91) are Serbs, which is not surprising, considering facts of the war-events in B&H and Croatia. When all the sentences issued by the court so far and those that are expected are summed up, it comes to 1000 years of imprisonment. Even though the number seems high, by no means it reciprocates committed crimes nor the number of the executors of those crimes that have not yet been prosecuted and are, moreover, holding high public offices in government of B&H. That is the legal and moral ‘contardictio’, what we Bosniaks, see as irreconcilable with moral legislative logic of some of the judges of the jury council who did everything they could to insure that criminals are not punished adequately or acquitted of the crimes they committed, placing the mentioned crimes within the framework of International Conventions, thus fabricating new legal ‘standards’ in order to comply with criminals not with truth or justice. In this regard, most blatant example of avoiding justice we have in the verdict of the ‘century’ in case of Radovan Karadzic and unprecedented legal morbidity in the verdict in case of Vojisalav Šešelj. The verdict in the case of the former is a slight consolation for the victims, whereas the latter is an unparalleled disgrace, a crime without punishment or, plainly ‘justification of crime’ by the judges who justified these crimes thus identifying themselves with the criminal as such.