by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 14, 2017 | Middle East
Vienna- The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria has gathered enough evidence for Bashar al-Assad to be convicted of war crimes, a prominent member of the commission, Carla del Ponte, said in remarks published on Sunday. Del Ponte, 70, who prosecuted war crimes in Rwanda...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 9, 2017 | Opinion
Ms. Carla Del Ponte was the head of the UN investigation looking into war crimes in Syria. She began her mission at the beginning of the war and has finally given up and declared her failure. Despite over half a million innocent victims, she was not able to summon one...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 7, 2017 | World
Geneva- Former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte announced on Sunday she is quitting a United Nations commission investigating human rights abuses in Syria because it “does absolutely nothing”. Del Ponte, 70, who prosecuted war crimes in Rwanda and...