It is as good to see the allleged 'butcher of the Balkans' Radko Mladic, on trial in The Hague, as it was to hear about the death of Osama Bin Laden.
The symbolism of the capture of these individuals is as important as the penance they pay for their crimes. It shows that the free world will not tolerate perpetrators of genocide. It gives a warning that mass murder will never go unpunished, however long it takes to capture the killers. Five years, ten years, twenty. It doesn't matter. Eventually justice will be done.
In the same way, the capture and sentencing of Nazi, John Demjanjuk, - the guard who assisted the murder of 28,000 Jews at the Sobibor concentration camp in Poland - reminded the world that we must never forget. It doesn't matter that these crimes were committed during the Second World War. Genocide is a crime is a crime is a crime.
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