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Hardcover Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity Book

ISBN: 1590513029

ISBN13: 9781590513026

Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity

Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide and crimes against humanity head-on, struggling to bring to justice the highest-ranking individuals responsible for...

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Rated 5 stars
Exceeds memoir expectations

Today's news report explains the gist of this book the best. -- Serbia fully committed to cooperation with ICTY President of the National Council for Cooperation with the ICTY Rasim Ljajic met today with ICTY President Patrick Robinson. This is Robinson's first official visit to Belgrade. According to a statement issued by the National Council, Ljajic informed Robinson about Serbia's efforts and commitment in cooperating...

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Rated 4 stars
Tales of Bureaucratic Obstruction & Evasion

This is not--as the title might suggest to you--a book that substantially consists of personal confrontations between the prosecutor and war criminals. In fact, there is a strongly tedious quality to this book; over and over, at length and with considerable detail, the author (who was in charge of the tribunals pursuing war criminals in Rwanda and in the Balkans area of the former Yugoslavia) describes how she was delayed,...

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