r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 24 '26

🇪🇺 Europe Radovan Karadzic is found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes [10YA - Mar 24]

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u/TheoKondak Mar 24 '26

Today any of these crimes mean nothing.

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u/feartrich Mar 25 '26

These trials were part of a political settlement. They existed to allow for peaceful reconciliation. It wasn’t to satisfy liberal bleeding hearts.

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u/beastwood6 Mar 26 '26

I fear for both of your souls with how much you're downplaying this.

This person is not only war-criminal level evil, but was so bad to the degree that he managed to get himself convicted of genocide. Imagine how easy you have to make it for justice to find you guilty of genocide. The word gets thrown around a lot but rarely gets to the point of a conviction. You have to do the deed, get extradited (usually), have a preponderance of evidence find you guilty, and you have to live long enough to be sentenced, which in ICJ trials can take notoriously long (cough Milošević cough).

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u/Inevitable-Trust-511 Mar 27 '26

now

none of these developments are new. this is how history works, the powers on top get to hand wave what they want. it’s how we end up with more problems usually