During 1992 and 1995, more than 100,000 Muslims, Bosnian Muslims died in the bloody Yugoslavian Wars. Many of them, in fact thousands of them were massacred systematically by Serbian forces in places like Srebrenica, Tuzla and elsewhere and bodies are still being dug up from mass graves.

The courtroom number one of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, The Hague expected to see Radovan Karadzic, one of the masterminds of the massacres that took the lives of several thousands.

However, he boycotted the tribunal and refused to appear before the court. Thousands of Bosnian victims and their families deserve justice, which can never be given by any court of law. Nevertheless, trying criminals like Radovan offers solace to the victims’ families.

The scene of Bosnian Muslims wailing and crying at the news of adjournment was heart rending indeed, most of whose loved ones are still buried somewhere in the mountainous terrain of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Karadzic faces 11 charges of war crimes, genocides and other crimes against humanity and it is rather surprising that he could easily get away by “boycotting the court”. The War Crime Court has probably lost its fangs.

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via: guardian