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5 unusual facts about Carla Del Ponte


Carla Del Ponte

In 2003, the U.N. Security Council removed Del Ponte as the Prosecutor for the ICTR, and replaced her there with Hassan Bubacar Jallow in an effort to expedite proceedings in that Tribunal.

On 4 April 2008 Human Rights Watch asked Kosovar Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha to open investigations on the matter under international supervision.

Chuck Sudetic

In 2009 he co-authored Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity together with Carla Del Ponte, the former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons

Although ICBUW believes that the use of weapons containing uranium should already be illegal under International Humanitarian laws, this is not the view held by Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Tihomir Blaškić

On July 29, 2005 chief ICTY prosecutor Carla Del Ponte filed motion for new trial, citing new evidence about Tihomir Blaškić's guilt.



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