The Hague and local courts
A while ago I was heaping scorn on Del Ponte’s threat that whoever didn’t surrender soon would have to face local courts.
Well, her threat seems to have worked up to a point, for a very specific reason that I hadn’t considered. On a local TV program last night, human rights lawyer Senka Nozica pointed out that the sentencing in Bosnia would be much stricter, with higher sentences and less leeway for judges, than is the case in The Hague.
It makes sense to prefer eight years in a Swedish prison to twelve in a Bosnian one.
The Bosnian court just opened its war crimes chamber last week and is expected to be rather busy rather soon.
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T K Vogel | 11:56 am |
This raises a valid point, I would personally COMMIT a crime to be in a Swedish jail, it is much better than my current life in the gulag here!
I have to remind myself Thou Shalt Not Covet! every time I think of Biljana Plavsic’s life circumstances vs mine, how must it feel to those who were victimized when she was in charge? OK fair dues to her, she did repent but you still raised the point of how much worse her life would be in a Bosnian prison, umm no horsies, no hair salon, no hot tubs, no library, no therapy, no massage, just to name a few perks missing from my life, let alone a Bosnian prison but very much present in the ‘prison’ in Sweden!
Comment by Katja — April 12, 2005 @ 11:53 pm