international figure

Carla Del Ponte

كارلا ديل بونتي

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Carla Del Ponte: Investigating Syria's War Crimes — Then Quitting in Disgust

The prosecutor who convicted Milošević spent five years documenting Syrian war crimes — then resigned from the UN Commission saying the world had failed Syria.

Biography

Carla Del Ponte is a Swiss former prosecutor who served as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (1999–2007), where she led the prosecution of war criminals including former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milošević. In 2012 she was appointed to the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, tasked with investigating war crimes in the Syrian conflict. In 2017 she resigned from the Commission in protest, publicly stating that the international community had failed Syria and that meaningful accountability for the crimes she had documented was politically impossible. Her resignation was a direct indictment of the international system's failure to act on Syria.

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Key Facts

Born:1947-02-09

Place:Lugano, Switzerland

Nationality:Swiss