Law a la carte
Last week, forty men, suspected of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide started a hungerstrike. They are all in detention, and are awaiting trial, or are currently being tried.
They are on strike, because they want a different criminal law to be applied for them- they want the Criminal Code to be used that was in force in 1992 (which was the SFRY code) instead of the Criminal Code that was introduced in BiH in 2003. They claim that the SFRY Code is more lenient for them, and that it therefore should be the one used in their cases.
More lenient? Mmm. Depends on how one looks upon it. Nowadays the death penalty is abolished in BiH; however, in 1992 capital punishment was not abolished yet. So more lenient? Yes, maybe true. But only once some of the articles in it are bend a bit, and you disregard the deathpenalty. Because personally I find it hard to regard the
death penalty as more lenient then a prison sentence.
They are on strike, because they want a different criminal law to be applied for them- they want the Criminal Code to be used that was in force in 1992 (which was the SFRY code) instead of the Criminal Code that was introduced in BiH in 2003. They claim that the SFRY Code is more lenient for them, and that it therefore should be the one used in their cases.
More lenient? Mmm. Depends on how one looks upon it. Nowadays the death penalty is abolished in BiH; however, in 1992 capital punishment was not abolished yet. So more lenient? Yes, maybe true. But only once some of the articles in it are bend a bit, and you disregard the deathpenalty. Because personally I find it hard to regard the
death penalty as more lenient then a prison sentence.
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