Criminal proceedings may then be downsized to a confession of a single massacre, as subsequent trials are shelved to open the way for punishment – unlike, say, the Milosevic trial, which is now dragging into its fourth year. But rapid punishment – most likely execution – threatens to bury the full record of decades of tyranny under the apparently overriding purpose of fighting the insurgency by other means.
刑事司法的程序则可能被缩减成对一次大屠杀的供认，因而接下来的审判都会被搁置，从而为惩处扫清道路—这和已历时四年的对米洛舍维奇的审判不同。但快速的刑罚—极可能是死刑—在明确用其他手段对抗叛乱的当务之急的影响下，很可能会抹煞数十年暴政的完全纪录。