Gotovina is a war criminal and he should get the cell next to Milosevic. He should receive no gratitude from civilized men for the killings and mass forced displacements of the Krajina Serb civilians.
And the only way Slobo would have ever seen the gallows would have been to leave him in Serbia.
The only problem with your "logic" is that Gotovina neither killed anyone nor forced the displacement of Krajina Serb civilians. As Mr. Harris ably points out:
"The indictment mentions 150 Serb civilians as having died. These deaths were caused by Croat civilians bent on revenge, while Croatian police did nothing to help. That was, indeed, shameful. But it happened after the conclusion of the military campaign, not during it. . . .The indictment alleges that this was the whole purpose of the operation. But the exodus was ordered by the Serb leadership itself, for its own reasons. The text of the order from Milan Martic, so-called president of the SRK, was published some weeks later in the Belgrade journal Politika. It
was endorsed by the SRK military chief, General Mile Mrksic, an appointee of Milosevic. The military evacuation was designed to retrieve heavy armor to be used in Bosnia. But why the civilians? The answer makes complete sense in Balkan terms. It was to advance Belgrade's policies of ethnic cleansing and re-settlement of Serbs in eastern Bosnia and Kosovo, parts of a planned Greater Serbia. . . .The point has been made very clearly by Peter Galbraith, U.S. ambassador to Croatia at the time: "The fact is, the [Serb] population left before the Croatian army got there. You can't deport people who have already left."
Gotovina should be thanked for putting an end to Milosevic's reign of terror.