HEIDELBERG – Rarely does one read such hopeful news: in late June, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić of genocide. That might sound like a bad thing: Karadžić, who once warned Bosnia’s Muslims that war would lead them down the road to hell, surely deserves to be sentenced for the acts of which he was just acquitted – murder, siege, and slaughter almost beyond naming.
海德堡——很少看到如此振奋人心的消息：6月下旬，前南问题国际法庭（ICTY）宣判前波斯尼亚塞族领导人拉多万·卡拉季奇的种族灭绝罪名不成立。这乍听上去似乎是件坏事：卡拉季奇曾警告波黑穆斯林战争会将他们引入地狱，他曾犯下难以名状的谋杀、围困和杀戮等罪行，假使因为刚刚得到赦免的行为而被判有罪也毫不稀奇。可被控种族灭绝恐怕并不合适。