Radovan Karadžić's sentence for Bosnia genocide exposes continuing divisions

[Lodestar]

Source: The Guardian

Victims say 40-year sentence is too lenient while many Serbs continue to support man who oversaw 1995 massacre at Srebrenica.

At the end of it all, 21 years since he was first charged, after 11 years on the run, a five-year trial and the 18 months the judges took to deliberate over a verdict, Radovan Karadžić’s moment of judgment came.

The Bosnian Serb leader was convicted of genocide for the 1995 slaughter at Srebrenica, and nine other counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, terror and extermination. It was a conviction that ranks as the most serious handed down in Europe since Nuremberg.

The judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia were definitive about Karadžić’s key involvement in the Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 7,000 men and boys were rounded up, executed and pushed into mass graves. The presiding ICTY judge delivering the ruling, O-Gon Kwon, said: “Karadžić was in agreement with the plan of the killings”, and had given a coded message to an underling for the doomed Muslim captives, which he referred to as “the goods”, to be moved to a warehouse, from where they were taken out and executed.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/24/radovan-karadzics-sentence-for-bosnia-genocide-exposes-continuing-divisions

[Bad Dog]

1. He's 70 years old.

He's not going to live to 110, 40 years will make sure he dies in prison, what's the point of a longer sentence? Anything longer than that sounds ridiculous. Life is life, nobody can serve longer than that.

[blackspade]

2. Radovan Karadžić is a sick fuck and deserves all the prison time he can be given.

The fact that some Serbs still think highly of him shows that like Trump supporters, some people are irredeemably shitty and stupid.

I still remember the footage of a young couple, a Serbian man and a Muslim woman who were almost to the treeline outside the city when they were gunned down by Serbian snipers. It was fucking senseless and loathsome.

[Archae]

3. It's not just some Serbs who support him.

Freepers do also.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027712383

[MisterP]

4. on the one hand you have people who died, on the other people who were on top

who wanted to be even more on top based on some idiot 19th-century fantasies and saying the Serbs were the most persecuted people in history (even as Milosevic palled around with Mr. Srbosjek Tudman)

[Odin2005]

5. That genocidal monster can burn in Hell.

So can all the nationalist morons defending him.