FLASH
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The courtroom where Milosevic was tried was closed, along with the idea that international justice still exists...
The hall where Slobodan Milosevic once sat, surrounded by files, cameras and the hope that the world would finally set a standard against barbarity, is now gone. Not physically, the walls are there, but symbolically, that hall no longer exists. It has become a bureaucratic space, a cold room without history, just as all of international justice has become: an empty office waiting for funds, not a court seeking the truth.
The trial against Milosevic, long, difficult and full of hard evidence, never ended. He died before he was sentenced, leaving behind a void that no one has filled. And while the victims were left without a final verdict, the international justice system began to decay like an abandoned building. The tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda were shut down one by one. The one for Lebanon was closed because it had no money. The mechanism that remains today is an imitation: toothless, without authority, without respect.
Worse still, the International Criminal Court has become a target of the very states that should support it. The US has hit it with sanctions. Italy extradites people to countries where they are at risk. Hungary ignores arrest warrants for Netanyahu. Putin and other indicted leaders walk free. Meanwhile, the head of the ICC himself faces sexual abuse charges. What justice can the world expect from an institution that is unable to clean up its own mess?
The closing of Milosevic's courtroom is not simply the end of an era; it is an acceptance of forgiveness for all the crimes that should have been judged with determination. It is the demolition of a moral monument, a clear sign that today international crime no longer fears The Hague, but laughs at it. All this did not happen out of a mistake, but out of fatigue, fear and political bargaining by the great powers, who now use international justice as a diplomatic decorum, not as a means of punishment.
The hall was closed. But what was buried there was not just a trial; it was the very idea that the world could be just. The Temple has fallen!/ Pamphlet
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