What is this world coming to?

[kamera1133]

"I deeply regret" Milosevic's death, Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte said Sunday, lamenting that "it deprives the victims of the justice they need and deserve."And that's coming from... um... the Chief fucking Prosecutor

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I think you mistake her intent, though it may be deliberately.

[volare]

by justice... the machinations of the court, not a guaranteed conviction. And in that sense she is absolutely correct; those who essentially served as plaintiffs and witnesses were deprived of the chance to participate in those machinations whatever their outcome may have been.

High profile war criminals like Milosevic -- Pinochet, for instance? - walked after trial despite mountains of evidence. I had no doubt that this one would do the same.

And don't get me wrong either; I am no apologist for the international bureaucracy nor am I a fan of it.

Re: I think you mistake her intent, though it may be deliberately.

[kakodaimon]

Agreed. As well, she was the chief Prosecutor... her job was always to present evidence against him. So it hardly makes the trial a "circus" because she expressed sympathy for Milosevic's victims well within her role.