Carla del Ponte discusses the arrest of Ratko Mladic
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has convicted former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to life in prison for atrocities perpetrated during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war.
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Carla del Ponte sobre la detención de Ratko Mladic
In this interview from May 2011 – held a few days after Mladic’s arrest – Carla del Ponte, a Swiss lawyer who was prosecutor of the ICTY from 1999 to 2007, told swissinfo.ch what Mladic’s arrest meant and discussed the challenges still facing international justice.
On Wednesday, del Ponte welcomed the “very positive” sentence handed down to Mladic. “It’s a relief for all the victims, who have finally succeeded in getting justice,” she told Swiss public radio, RTS.
The trial of Mladic is the last one at the ICTY, which will close at the end of the year. Del Ponte said the tribunal had “fully carried out” the mandate given to it by the UN Security Council. “All the responsible politicians and soldiers stood trial. We did what needed to be done,” she said.
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Del Ponte hails ‘great day for international justice’
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Del Ponte, a Swiss lawyer who was prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia from 1999 to 2007, had previously accused Belgrade of lacking a “focused and coordinated plan” for Mladic’s arrest, calling its handling of the case “unprofessional”. In April she told a Serbian newspaper that Mladic was in Serbia “because…
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Swiss press cynical about Mladic arrest
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Serbian President Boris Tadic announced that Europe’s most wanted war crimes fugitive had been arrested on Thursday and was headed to the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague. Several newspapers said Serbia and Tadic himself had much to gain by the move. Former Bosnian Serbian army commander Mladic had been on the run since 1995…
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Mladic has been on the run since 1995 when he was indicted for genocide by the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague for the slaughter of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Mladic’s long evasion of arrest has blocked Serbia’s progress towards joining the European Union. “On behalf…
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Del Ponte, who was prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for eight years from 1999 to 2007, is returning to Switzerland after three years as ambassador to Argentina. The prosecutor created an international controversy with the 2008 publication of the book The Hunt: War Criminals and Me in which she described…
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For the people who suffered under his regime, his arrest has far greater significance. The Serb government, secret service and police said he had gone into hiding and was untraceable, while Karadzic lived and worked unrecognised by the general public. Survivors, western governments and Balkan experts labelled Karadzic a mass murderer, responsible for the deaths…
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