Hey, it’s the Balkans, OK?

What happens there can blow up the world, but if there are criminals we can use to keep the area kind of stable …

“(I)n three decisions handed down over the past year regarding high-ranking Croatian and Serbian defendants, the ICTY has essentially thrown the notion of command responsibility out the window, now in effect ruling that superiors can be found guilty of war crimes only if they give specific orders for those crimes to be committed.”

And if we wait long enough …

“(I)n November 2000, ICTY prosecutor Graham Blewitt noted that there was enough evidence to indict former Croatian President Franjo Tudjman for war crimes; Tudjman had conveniently died a year earlier, so the issue was moot. On October 22, 2003, a spokesperson for the ICTY announced that Bosnia’s former Islamist president, Alija Izetbegovic, was under investigation for war crimes; the spokesperson also announced that the investigation was being closed because Izetbegovic had conveniently died three days earlier.”

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/trials-and-tribulations-politics-justice-icty?utm_source=World+Affairs+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1dbd871735-September_16_2013_WAJ_Bardos&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f83b38c5c7-1dbd871735-294583209