Given that they finally caught him ... we are now going to see another feeding frenzy where lawyers become enriched but where justice will likely not be served until the year 2020.I'm talking of course, about the recent capture of Radovan Karadzic. My cynical attitude stems from the fact that these international crimes against humanity cases have become a carnival where the attending legal community becomes enriched, but where justice isn't served simply because the process has become so torturous (pardon the pun).Did you know, for instance, that the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has thus far convicted only 28 people ... that's it, with a whole bunch more to go. Given that the tribunal started in 1994, many lawyers will have made entire careers out the process, while many defendants and their victims will die of...
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