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Skriven 2012-03-19 22:45:32 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Ivan the Terrible RIP
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Hello Robert,

On Sunday March 18 2012 10:36, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

 RB> And one of the purpose. I think it's more than "slightly" questionable
 RB> to consider someone at age 90 the same person as at age 20. In some
 RB> cases, that may be the case - I recenetly read that "Angel of death"
 RB> Dr. Menegele remained quite unrepenitant up to his death in South
 RB> America - but in many it's surely not. And wheeling some decrepit aged
 RB> person into court to answer for possible crimes committed at age 20 is
 RB> at best a futile gesture and at worst no better than what the Nazis
 RB> did to their victims.

Here I have to agree. The guy is no longer in a position to hurt anyone any
more. Even if he was guilty, there is zero chance of him doing it ever again
and it won't bring back the victims.

 RB> As for Bjorn's original subject and comments, it was never proven that
 RB> Mr. Demjanjuk actually _was_ the infamous "Ivan the Terrible", and in
 RB> fact an _Israeli_ court freed him because of this uncertainty. The
 RB> evidence wasn't thin, it was nearly invisible.

Plus that he was already judges in Isra‰l and absconded for lack of evidence.
Trying him again goes against the principle of "ne bis in idem".

 RB> Trying to make up for (intentionally) lost time with defendents in
 RB> their late 80s and 90s is, in my opinion, a futile and sometimes even
 RB> ridiculous exercise.

Agreed.


Cheers, Michiel

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