And a trial, however unsatisfactory, is in most cases still to be preferred to an assassination. But trying him for genocide, even though it will be hard to prove that he ever intended to exterminate Bosnian Muslims as a group, just because they were Muslims, will further muddy the term’s already vague definition.
我们无需为姆拉迪奇感到遗憾，因为他无疑犯下了严重的战争罪行。而一场审判，虽然不尽如人意，在许多情况下至少也比一场暗杀要好。但以种族屠杀的罪名指控他，即便难以证明他确实是蓄意将波斯尼亚穆斯林作为一个整体而消灭（理由仅仅因为这些人都是穆斯林），将令种族灭绝这一本已模糊的定义更加含糊不清。