Monday, August 23, 2010

Dictum of the day, or on the banality of evil

Aside from the matters to which I am about to turn the Claimant was apparently a man of entirely good character (...) I start by noting that it was common ground that the Claimant had been convicted of very serious criminal activity which involved active assistance in the imposition of unimaginable and indescribable suffering on the Bosnian Muslim population of Srebrenica (...)

Radislav Krstić v. Secretary of State for Justice, England and Wales High Court (Administrative Court) Decisions, Case No: CO/4878/2010, 13 August 2010, para. 2 and 15.

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