Does Radovan Karadzic deserve a fair trial, or should he just be hanged publicly

Question

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/01/karadic-submission.html?ref=rss

Answer 1

well he would deserve being hanged, but he is being judged in europe and we don't have the death penalty here.... hopefully he will spend the rest of his life in jail...

Answer 2

Of course he deserves a fair trial.  When someone has been an outlaw like Karadzic, committing crimes against humanity, the worst thing you can do is throw over the very rule of law that he has violated and resort to vigilante "justice."

Look at what happened after World War II.  The n***s had committed crimes that make what Karadzic did seem almost pedestrian by comparison.  But were they simply lined up and summarily shot?  No, they were given a trial, with lawyers representing them, to show the world that the way to deal with those who would resort to uncivilized behavior is by emphasizing what civilized behavior consists of.  One of the cornerstones of modern Western civilization is the concept of the rule of law.  Not giving Karadzic his day in court would subvert that principle.  

Answer 3

Of course he deserves a fair trial.

Dr Karadžić has a lot to say about dirty hands of Holbroke and Solana and Blair and Albright and Orić and Izetbegvić and many more.

But Hague is not a fair place.

When a suspect opens his mouth too much, they manage to shut him up by 'natural death'.

Answer 4

extradition of Karadzic is creepy; I never shake hand of a Serb from now on!  

Answer 5

Both.  It is the most civil way I can think of.

Answer 6

He deserves a fair trial, just like the Ustase war criminals, the ones responsible of defaming Serbs and the "Judges" and "prosecutors" who caused the deaths of Serbs detainees in this injustice institution will eventually get, please God. The difference is: A fair trial, with its details made publicly known, will result in Dr. Karadzic's aquittal. Such a trial would result in a conviction of the real criminals, against whom there are udisputed evidence.

Answer 7

In a perfect world Karadzic would have a fair trial.

What about the offer he claimed the US envoy, Richard Holbrooke, made in 1995 to Karadzic? The offer was for Karadzic to disappear completely from politics.

See more at

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hann...

  

Answer 8

Yes and yes.  The trial is important for the victims to be able to give testimony to the world about what he did--to give them that catharsis.  Summarily hanging him wouldn't do that as well.  Unfortunately, the Hague doesn't have the death penalty.  But he'll probably die soon enough just as Milosevic did.

--Avner's reaction is absolutely typical of what 90% of folks in former Yugoslavia say.  Ask a Serb about Karadzic and they bring up the Ustase.  Ask a Croat about Gotavina or a Muslim about one of their war criminals and they do the same thing--just point fingers elsewhere.  Like just because others were raping and killing civilians with the approval of their leadership makes it okay.  I think it's totally impossible for a person from outside the conflict, thinking rationally, to understand the mindset that brought about the conflict in the first place and made it so ugly.

Answer 9

he gets a fair trial, whether he deserves one or not.