Vae victis - Woe to the vanquished
The conquered have no rights. If anyone expected these criminals to be given anything more than the slap on the wrist that they got, they were being very naive indeed.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be".
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives".