Many would call war criminals not going to jail impunity, following common retributive justice and logic. The alternative that will be used in Colombia’s transitional justice system, restorative justice, is already applied in many western countries, and with success. In the common retributive justice system, offenders are punished. In the case of atrocious war crimes like massacres, allowing war criminals to stay out of prison and let him free would sound like a public threat to many.
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