A Show Tribunal Won’t Do

Michael Young on how to judge if the STL is a success or a failure:

It was always the right of the families of the victims to expect that everything would be done to ensure that the guilty would be identified and punished. Has everything been done to achieve that outcome? Only an affirmative answer should be the benchmark for success when the special tribunal eventually closes its doors; not the issuing of indictments or scholastic pride in a remote legal process that ends up in a cul-de-sac before an empty courtroom.

Mind you, he’s not saying that a guilty verdict should be guaranteed. It is always possible that the defendants can disprove the case against them. What young is saying is that the prosecution should show that it did all it can in its power to investigate the matter thoroughly and honestly.