Carla Del Ponte
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Procureur (Prosecutor) of the ICTY Carla del Ponte
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62 years old
Den Haag
Netherlands
Last Login: 10/15/2008
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With a long range weapon or suicide bomber
Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether you're stowaway's son or BBC 1
Dis-information is a weapon of mass destruction
You could be a caucasian or a poor asian
Racism is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether inflation or globalisation
Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether Haliburton, Enron or anyone
Greed is a weapon of mass destruction
We need to find courage, overcome
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Serious Relationships | | Body type: | Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Occupation: | Prosecutor |
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Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947 in Lugano, Switzerland) is currently a Chief UN War Crimes Prosecutor. A former Swiss attorney general, she was appointed prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in August 1999, replacing Louise Arbour. 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 Court. She remains the Prosecutor for the ICTY. Del Ponte was formerly married, and has one son.
Early life and education
Del Ponte was born to an Italian-speaking family in Lugano, Switzerland in 1947. She speaks fluent Italian, German, French and English. Del Ponte studied law in Bern and Geneva, as well as in Britain. She obtained her LL.M. in 1972.
After completing her studies, Del Ponte joined a private law firm in Lugano, which she left in 1975 to set up her own company.
Prosecutor at the Lugano district
In 1981 she was appointed investigating magistrate, and later public prosecutor at the Lugano district attorney's office. As public prosecutor, Del Ponte dealt with cases of fraud, drug trafficking, arms smuggling, terrorism and espionage.
It was during that period that she and investigative Judge Giovanni Falcone uncovered the link between Swiss money launderers and the Italian drug trade in the so-called "pizza connection" case. As a result Judge Falcone was killed by a car bomb. Del Ponte was more fortunate as the half a tonne of explosives planted in the foundations of her Palermo home were discovered in time for her to escape the attempted assassination unhurt. Falcone's death nurtured Del Ponte's resoluteness to fight organised crime. Her enemies in the Cosa Nostra call her "La Puttana" ("the whore").
Career at the ICTY
After serving for five years as Switzerland's attorney general, in 1999 Del Ponte joined the ICTY and ICTR to deal with war crimes as prosecutor. Talking about war crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts in the 1990s, Del Ponte said in an interview in late 2001: "Justice for the victims and the survivors requires a comprehensive effort at international and national level."
On January 30th 2007 Del Ponte announced she will resign her position as Chief Prosecutor at the ICTY. she stated it 'is time to return to normal life.
BBC:
Carla Del Ponte has been nicknamed "the new Gestapo", "the whore", "the unguided missile" and "the personification of stubbornness".
She takes perverse pride in such labels - she says they show she is doing her job.
Indeed the petite, chain smoking war crimes prosecutor, who is famous for her ruthless pursuit of goals, believes that it is her vigorous approach that led to the calls for her replacement as the chief prosecutor for war crimes in Rwanda.
Ms Del Ponte, who carries out the same function for the former Yugoslavia, says there has been political pressure from Rwanda for her removal because she proposed investigating the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Army for the suspected reprisal killings of more than 30,000 Hutus.
But Rwanda's Prosecutor General Gerald Gahima said people in the country took "strong exception" to the fact that the investigation of more than one million deaths had been made a "part-time job of a prosecutor based on another continent".
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan agreed that the job was too big for one person.
Serbian successes
When Ms Del Ponte took up her role as prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia with the UN on 15 September 1999, bringing the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to justice for his alleged role in atrocities committed in the Balkans became her top priority.
His arrest and subsequent appearance in her court two years ago was in large part the result of her 18 month crusade - a mission which saw her branded "the new Gestapo" by the Serbian press.
However, many countries argue that the Rwandan tribunal, based in Arusha, Tanzania, has not made as much progress as the Yugoslav one.
A variety of reasons have been cited, from bureaucratic inefficiency to friction with the Rwandan Government, but also insufficient attention from Ms Del Ponte's staff based in The Hague, Netherlands.
Legal career
Ms Del Ponte was born in Lugano, Switzerland in 1947. She married and had a son, then divorced.
She began her career as a local lawyer, going on to become an investigating magistrate, a public prosecutor and the Swiss attorney-general.
In the late 1980s her investigation of the so-called "pizza connection" brought her into direct conflict with the Sicilian mafia.
Ms Del Ponte, along with investigative judge Giovanni Falcone, uncovered the connection between the Italian drug trade and Swiss money launderers.
It was her enemies in Cosa Nostra who christened her "the whore" ("La Puttana").
They also tried to assassinate her. Half a tonne of explosives were discovered hidden in the foundations of Ms Del Ponte's Palermo home.
Fortunately, the device was discovered and she escaped unharmed.
But her friend Judge Falcone was less lucky. He was blown up in his car.
His death only increased Ms Del Ponte's determination to fight organised crime.
In Switzerland, she campaigned against the bank secrecy for which Swiss financial institutions are famous.
This upset the status quo and angered many.
It was a banking executive who branded her "the unguided missile".
But in the end, she won. Swiss banks reformed the secrecy rules that protected international criminals.
Famous targets
Mr Milosevic was not her first high profile target.
In the course of her career she has implicated Russian leader Boris Yeltsin in a financial scandal, frozen the bank accounts of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and seen that over $100m was confiscated from Raul Salinas, the brother of disgraced Mexican president Carlos Salinas.
The tribunal's chief prosecutor is not afraid of upsetting powerful people in the course of her work.
In January last year, she was chastised for reportedly accusing the former Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica of being an accomplice to war criminals for refusing to extradite Mr Milosevic.
The outburst was born of the obsessive perseverance that prompted her slain friend Giovanni Falcone to warmly dub her "the personification of stubbornness".
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