Human Interest angles on Karadzic's Detenion
crayons & flip flops & no belts | 31.07.2008 19:33 | Other Press | World
Flicking (as you do) through the online pages of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's webpages today, since they're in the news with the trial of ex-guru faith-healer & genocidal monster Radovan Karadzic, I noticed one thing which is very different from the pages which were presented for Milosevic when he had his few days in court.
It's not that the indictment of Milosevic mentioned Karadzic and was filled with "outside players" and the indictment of Karadzic doesn't mention Milosevic and only barely touches the Yugoslav army as an outside player.
Nope. It's something much more mundane than that.
There is a whole page of "copyright waived" photographs of the detention unit for our ghoulish entertainment.
It's not that the indictment of Milosevic mentioned Karadzic and was filled with "outside players" and the indictment of Karadzic doesn't mention Milosevic and only barely touches the Yugoslav army as an outside player.
Nope. It's something much more mundane than that.
There is a whole page of "copyright waived" photographs of the detention unit for our ghoulish entertainment.
You can see photos and distribute them for free on the internet of The ICTY’s Detention Unit (DU), a remand centre under the supervision of the Tribunal’s Registry,located within a Dutch prison complex in the Scheveningen neighbourhood of The Hague.
here
http://www.un.org/icty/cases-e/factsheets/duindex-e.htm
They give you loads of information, the rules, the regimen, they even give you a walk-about video - so you too can know what it's like to be a genocidal monster on trial.
You get a 15m2 cell which they assure us exceeds international standards for space, lighting and facilities and is designed for single occupancy. Odd isn't it, that the more people you kill and slaughter, and the longer you get away with that - the more comfortably you are imprisoned and the better facilities you are offered.
Each cell contains a bed, desk, shelving, cupboard, toilet, hand basin, TV and intercom for communication with the officers whilst the cell is locked. There is also a gym, Education and Occupational Therapy section (for yoga or whatever it was guru man did) and of course a "spirituality room" for getting close to an accredited God or higher moral force.
Now they are not encouraging us (having encouraged me I encourage you) to look at their detention units as proof of the legacy IKEA® or House and Interiors© have had on the process of bringing genocidal monsters to international justice.
And judging by the fact that the BBC took them up on the publicity step yesterday by disseminating the "inside a ICTY cell" video http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7532655.stm there is some importance to this little fact-sheet which actually gets its own thumbnail image on the ICTY Karadzic homepage http://www.un.org/icty/latest-e/pressindex.htm
I wonder is it because on March 11th 2006 Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal in a cell just like that.
You see how they get better at what they do every time?
Maybe by the time they get round to bringing Mladić out of leotards and sunglasses to have his day in court, they will have improved the process to include Youtube or Podcasts of genocidal monsters talking to those Higher Moral forces in the spirituality room.
http://www.un.org/icty/latest-e/pressindex.htm
here
http://www.un.org/icty/cases-e/factsheets/duindex-e.htm They give you loads of information, the rules, the regimen, they even give you a walk-about video - so you too can know what it's like to be a genocidal monster on trial.
You get a 15m2 cell which they assure us exceeds international standards for space, lighting and facilities and is designed for single occupancy. Odd isn't it, that the more people you kill and slaughter, and the longer you get away with that - the more comfortably you are imprisoned and the better facilities you are offered.
Each cell contains a bed, desk, shelving, cupboard, toilet, hand basin, TV and intercom for communication with the officers whilst the cell is locked. There is also a gym, Education and Occupational Therapy section (for yoga or whatever it was guru man did) and of course a "spirituality room" for getting close to an accredited God or higher moral force.
Now they are not encouraging us (having encouraged me I encourage you) to look at their detention units as proof of the legacy IKEA® or House and Interiors© have had on the process of bringing genocidal monsters to international justice.
And judging by the fact that the BBC took them up on the publicity step yesterday by disseminating the "inside a ICTY cell" video
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7532655.stm there is some importance to this little fact-sheet which actually gets its own thumbnail image on the ICTY Karadzic homepage http://www.un.org/icty/latest-e/pressindex.htm I wonder is it because on March 11th 2006 Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal in a cell just like that.
You see how they get better at what they do every time?
Maybe by the time they get round to bringing Mladić out of leotards and sunglasses to have his day in court, they will have improved the process to include Youtube or Podcasts of genocidal monsters talking to those Higher Moral forces in the spirituality room.
http://www.un.org/icty/latest-e/pressindex.htm
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The Beard
31.07.2008 22:28
Cold Stomper
Something in that shaving lark too, isn't there?
01.08.2008 14:15
For another - It's not just a weird way of abandoning the hirsuite "cuddly guru self who emerged once he had been forgotten about" & thus causing us all to think how the genocidal monster within has aged.
The Serbian press from Belgrade chose to go with the sober serious criminal against humanity look in a number of ways.
Compare this pretty serious news site "B92" which carries English language pages
with the high distribution tabloid sensationalist daily "Kurir"
The serious paper showed a serious man yesterday, but gave opinion and comment space to a former US diplomat to opine how Karadzic's process is really just a stepping stone for all concerned to the arrest and trial of Mladic. Almost as if to say that it is not only the ICTY who have learned from the last time but the Serbians too..,
The tabloid Kurir didn't use either the hirsuite guru image or the sober old man one. They led with a report on a "mystery laptop" and a picture of genocidal monster just as we all remember him looking like before he got his wanted posters.
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