Bosnia's case is a case against the leadership, and the leaders represent the state. They employ the organs of state power. |
He is one of the most critical high-level insiders that the prosecution has been able to produce. |
He was not brought to judgment, but he was brought to justice. He did not die in a hail of bullets in Belgrade or in retirement on the French Riviera. He died in a jail cell. |
The judges learned the lesson about self-representation too late. They bent over backwards for him. |
They're both used to wielding absolute power and they both want to demonstrate who's in charge. They perceive this as their show and the show doesn't go on without them. |
This is exactly what the judges have feared all along. That the trial wouldn't be complete and there would be no verdict.... They knew the fragile state of his health. |