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I agree. Having lived with a civil war and with non-western roots I find the Western attitude to things like this to be hopelessly naive. It is the product of a
by graemep 10mo ago
I agree. Having lived with a civil war and with non-western roots I find the Western attitude to things like this to be hopelessly naive. It is the product of a golden age following the collapse of communism and the subsequent unrealistic "end of history" optimism.
- chimineycricket 10mo agoYou're missing the point, "justice sought by the ICC" implies that the ICC just wanted to execute them, which is obviously not true.
- rounce 10mo agoSo in the case of Sri Lanka, was the LLRC set up and subsequently criticised as a mechanism to lend legitimacy to the way in which government forces conducted operations against LTTE? If so, would its mere existence not indicate some level of societal buy-in to the idea that actions should take part according to some judicial form of 'justice'?
- graemep 10mo agoThe idea to enquire into whether actions were justified in the context of war. Very different from a criminal trial before actions are taken.