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14 November 2023 - Adetswil
Calling your autobiography "I'm no hero" sort of leads one to believe that you think the opposite. Carla Del Ponte certainly believes her role as chief prosecutor in the Rwanda and Yugoslavia international postwar tribunals was important. And the farce that was the Syrian tribunal she recognized as such. However, she seems to have no worries that the international criminal court (ICC) is an unelected body purporting to make laws that have jurisdiction in the whole world. The book is interesting as an insider's look at the process, but too political at points. Blaming Trump for the failures of the Syria tribunal in 2013 (4 years before he was US president) is laughable, but maybe it's just bad editing. The number of times she mentions hopes for changes under Biden I don't think so. But the book was published in 2021, before Biden became president. She spends most of her polemic energy on the US, she says, because Russia and China are unlikely to change. I can't say I agree with Del Ponte on everything, but she definitely broadened my understanding of international law.
