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Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity Hardcover – January 20, 2009

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  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Other Press (January 20, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1590513029
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590513026
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.6 x 9.5 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 starsOverly detailed but important
By ewaffle on August 24, 2010
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After reading "Madame Prosecutor" I am more convinced than ever that the International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague, run by the United Nations and for which Carla Del Ponte was the chief prosecutor for crimes against humanity committed in Rawanda and Yugoslavia, is not the best way or even a very good way to go after war criminals.

The problem is certainly not with Del Ponte--she was a dogged worker, good manager and dedicated prosecutor. She does not come across as a person one would want as a friend but as someone to bring end the culture of impunity enjoyed by mass murderers. I doubt if a anyone could do better given the built-in constraints of the system.

Del Ponte was both ambitious, wanting success for its own sake and to continue her career but also fervent in her desire to get the people ultimately guilty for some of the worst crimes since the end of World War II. She is able to ignore the details of slaughter and refuses to prosecute the low level soldiers and police officers guilty of murder. She wants the monsters who initiated the reign of terror against helpless civilians in central Africa and Southeast Europe.

The biggest problem she faced is the willingness of the United States, France, the United Kingdom and other nations who have tried to seize the moral high ground recently to value diplomacy over justice. Another difficulty is the bureacracy of the UN itself. There are plenty of other reasons why the going has been slow and few of the guilty have been tried.

Spain showed the way when a court there indicted Augusto Pinochet for crimes committed during his term as dictator in Chile.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsInternational Politics and the Search for Justice
By L. van Rooijen on June 27, 2012
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Carla del Ponte served as the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1999-2003) and the International Criminal Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia (1999-2008). While there is a short chapter about del Ponte's childhood and her work in Switzerland as a public prosecutor, the majority of the books deals with her role as chief prosecutor of the ICTY and the ICTR. But if you are looking for sweeping descriptions of court cases with explanations on the evidence and witness testimonies, you are looking in the wrong place.

Del Ponte gives a decent enough background and description of the situation in Rwanda and Yugoslavia to put the cases against the different war criminals in perspective. However, del Ponte spent most of the book describing her encounters with the muro di gomma, the rubber wall. As chief prosecutor of the ICTY and the ICTR it was her responsibility to secure continued support and cooperation from the different countries involved in establishing these two international tribunals. Yet everywhere she turns she encounters opposition against her work. Many countries promise to help capture the accused, but few follow through on those promises in a timely fashion or at all. Del Ponte creates a very clear picture of how frustrating this hostility is, but it appears to only motivate her more.

Another interesting point del Ponte makes are about the cases she would have like to have prosecuted, but was incapable of doing due to a variety of reasons. She repeatedly speaks about her desire to bring Kagame and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) to answer for their crimes during the Rwandan genocide and the aftermath.Read more ›
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By Nadine Kaddoura on January 8, 2012
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I cant decide whether to like this book or not. Getting down to the nitty-gritty of international politics was essentially the interesting part; at times, the reader gets bogged down with useless details and excessive information but its worth reading for the historical knowledge of genocide in our modern times.
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