Not great but at least it has a true title!
Go to the link for the comments which go into more detail... http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2008/07/23/the_radovan_karadzic_trial_will_be_a_travesty The Radovan Karadzic trial will be a travesty Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 10:34 AM GMT [General] Now the travesty begins. The loathsome Radovan Karadžić will be vacu-suctioned off to The Hague to face a court that violates every norm of jurisprudence. A court that admits hearsay evidence, that changes its own rules of procedure as it goes along, that repeatedly contradicts itself. A court, indeed, set up specifically to target certain individuals, in breach of the oldest of all legal precepts, namely that the law should apply indiscriminately to everyone. Radovan Karadžić: bad men deserve a fair trial All these flaws and more were on display during the Milošević trial. As Anthony Daniels wrote: "The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague was little more than a kangaroo court, though without the very real advantages of that kind of legal establishment, namely speed and economy." The court worked its leisurely way through a budget of around $200 million, and had still not reached its point before both the judge and the defendant were dead. Imagine that this had happened in any other context. Imagine that a man had been held at Belmarsh or Guantánamo for more than five years without being found guilty of anything; that he had asked for permission to visit a heart specialist and been refused; and that he had died two weeks later. "But Milošević was an utter swine!" you protest. "And Karadžić is even worse!" Maybe. But bad men - perhaps bad men especially - deserve justice. Our objection to them is precisely that they abused their positions, that they acted as if they were above the law. We don't right that wrong by being equally high-handed ourselves. David Miliband said yesterday that the hand-over of Karadžić would ease Belgrade's relations with the West, and that the arrest established Serbia's democratic credentials. Precisely the opposite is true. Serbia's democratic credentials will be established when a man like Karadžić can get justice there. Putting him on trial in Belgrade might force some of the more bone-headed Serbian irrreconcilables to confront what was done in their name. Whisking him off to The Hague serves no one's interests - except, of course, the handsomely remunerated and growing corpus of international human rights lawyers.
