 He stated that successive rulings of the ICTY Appeals Chamber have allowed this doctrine "to get wildly out of hand", arguing thus that "international tribunals have abolished the very thing which criminal trials are supposed to be about.If you can be convicted of a crime as a primary perpetrator for something which you neither committed nor intended to commit, and if "mens rea" can be ‘established’ by judicial ruling" this is "introducing into the heart of their systems measures which are the very hallmark of dictatorships.