03-26-2012, 09:14 AM
Such behaviour is not normal. I think there is a very strong probability that the man is suffering mental break-down, and that he might be held to be incapable of standing trial, for that reason. Were he to stand trial, he could plead that as a mitigating circumstance. The Afghan judicial system, apart from being influenced by financial, political and popular pressure, is inherently flawed: it does not administer a civilised system of law, and no country signed up to Human Rights could extradite a person to it. Therefore, as terrible as this episode was, it would be wrong to throw this man to the lions. Hard cases make bad law.