Talk:Permanent Court of Arbitration
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[edit] Milosevic
Milosevic is dead. The good news is that the whole "Greater Serbia" movement may be dying too. The bad news is, he dies before he recieved any sentence from The Hague. This trial was fairly unique. It's one of the first of it's kind since the Nuremberg trials. However, the Nuremberg trials reached a decisive conclusion, which in turn allowed the healing process to begin, and established the legal authority of a court like the ICC. This trial did not. Europe's lodestone has always been, and always will be, it's inability to unite over much of anything. Here was the opportunity for the ICC to justify it's existence by bringing a war criminal to justice. The ICC instead became weighed down with beuracracy and indecision, to the point where it could not frunction well enough to reach a verdict of either innocence or guilt before the defendant died in his cell. Maybe the judges thought this would relieve them of the burden of having to say something controversial, which either verdict would have been. But it just makes the Court look spineless and weak, unable to take a stand. Their inability to reach a consensus within the time needed shows the inefficiency of this court, and displays for all the world to see it's fatal flaw. War criminals need not fear the ICC. Milosevic got away with it. The signal sent out by his death is that all the other war criminals probably will, too.Wandering Star 02:54, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- This seems to be the wrong forum for the preceding statement since the PCA is not a criminal court. And the respective user seems to mix up the ICC and the ICTY. Too bad... Henning Blatt 14:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
