War Criminals -- At Any Age -- Should Be Punished

05/ 2/2012
The writer Joseph Conrad once observed that "the belief in a supernatural source of evil is unnecessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." This certainly rings true with respect to perpetrators and enablers of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.

This week Canadian and international media reported on new evidence against an alleged Nazi war criminal living in Ormstown, Quebec, only a short one-hour drive from Montreal. German historian Pers Rudlingcharges in newly declassified Soviet documents that Volodymyr Katriuk was part of a Nazi-led battalion that machine-gunned innocent villagers in Belarus in 1943. Katriuk had already had his citizenship revoked but reinstated when the appeal court ruled there was no evidence that he had actually participated in the shootings.

Bernie Farber