"I cannot see the Convention wanting the applicants to stand for election come hell or high water. Election candidates, even with Armageddon as the price (...) Court does ill to shut its mind to histories in which hate validates culture (...) Court has ordered the respondent State to fling the Dayton accords in the liquidizer and then to start looking for something else (...) Court has not found a hazard of civil war, the avoidance of carnage or the safeguard of territorial cohesion to have sufficient social value to justify some limitation on the rights of the two applicants (...) I cannot endorse a Court that sows ideals and harvests massacre."
- Case of Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Merits and Just Satisfaction, Dissenting Opinion of Judge Bonello 27996/06 and 34836/06, 22 December 2009.
Contrary to Bonello, the situation in BiH is rather uneventful (the rapture is on hold). However, I am astonished that Bonello, and to a lesser degree Mijović and Haynijev, consider that the Court with this Decision had demolished the ethnodemocratic pens and ordered the establishment of the state for the abstract citizen (¶47 of the decision particularly interesting). Fallacy par exellence.
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