I’ve been meaning to post about this ever since I saw how long Laszlo Csatary was trending on Twitter yesterday morning. Obviously, many people around the world have their opinions whether justice still needs to be done or not.
Yes, the man is 97 years old. There are those who think that an old man in his age should be left alone, but my personal opinion is that the acts he allegedly commited were serious enough to call for justice even that many years after.
Of course we can speak of the human and legal justification of Statutory Limitations, but there is a reason why war crimes never lapse. The fact that time passed, the fact that it was wartime, the psychology of war, the hiding behind the uniform in order to distance themselves from their acts might have been reasons to avoid justice back then, but not after the Geneva conventions.
Justice needs to be done, even if only in some symbolic way. That’s the Hungarian jurisdiction’s role now to find out how (many times I wish our jurisdiction would have the possibility to apply the most creative ways to punish people like the Anglo-Saxon legal systems).
