At least the bastard's in the dock and if we can get hold of Karadic (spelling) we can at least punish two of those responsible for Jugoslavia's current troubles.
Someone in our legal department clued me into a concept of law in which if my action directly cause another person to take a life (i.e. in self-defence) I can be held accountable for murder. For example if I hold up a beer store and the clerk fires back and shoots another customer dead, I can be charged in the murder of that customer.
The same legal concept if applied to Jugoslav war crimes would hold that Milosovic forced NATO into bombing and is as accountable to the damage NATO has done if he'd dropped the bombs himself.
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Date: 2001-10-03 08:54 am (UTC)Someone in our legal department clued me into a concept of law in which if my action directly cause another person to take a life (i.e. in self-defence) I can be held accountable for murder. For example if I hold up a beer store and the clerk fires back and shoots another customer dead, I can be charged in the murder of that customer.
The same legal concept if applied to Jugoslav war crimes would hold that Milosovic forced NATO into bombing and is as accountable to the damage NATO has done if he'd dropped the bombs himself.