Auschwitz survivor sought for genocide

[emad]

From the UK's Times:

Poland is seeking the extradition from Israel of an 83-year-old Polish-born Jew on charges of genocide for the deaths of German prisoners in a communist camp he commanded after World War II. Israel previously refused Poland's request to extradite Auschwitz survivor Solomon Morel, who was the commander of a camp for German prisoners from February-November 1945, to face charges of torture in 1998, saying the statute of limitations had run out. Polish special prosecutors have upgraded the charges to genocide, for which there is no statute of limitation, based on new testimony from former German inmates at the defunct Swietochlowice camp, near the southern city of Katowice.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,144,00.html

[mainegreen]

1. Only 20 mores years

And everyone who was involved in that war will be dead (for better or worse) and maybe the world can move on.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. For the world as a whole, it'll be for the better

Something I often think when I read stories such as this one.