I wholeheartedly agree, but there’s a catch-Judge Meron isn’t doing this mainly because he feels compelled to “apply abstract Western law” in a situation far removed from Western realities in matters of criminality.
Editor, RE: "Judge Theodor Meron’s decisions hurting Genocide survivors” (The New Times, January 12).
I wholeheartedly agree, but there’s a catch—Judge Meron isn’t doing this mainly because he feels compelled to "apply abstract Western law” in a situation far removed from Western realities in matters of criminality.
This isn’t a judge who is so compassionate that he’d rather see a well-behaved inmate back into society in the hope that the criminal is rehabilitated.
To do so he would have had "first” checked with the million plus victims and millions more who have been traumatised and are scarred forever. This isn’t a judge who has followed a particular convict in their inner rehabilitation process and then realised that they were feeling remorseful and have changed.
Nope! None of that happened. We all know what happened. The powers that be decided. And he delivered. Nothing new here. Ali Rukariza