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  • War-Crimes Prosecutor, Frustrated at U.N. Inaction, Quits Panel on Syria

    Carla del Ponte File photo Carla del Ponte

    For six years, an independent United Nations-appointed panel has documented a litany of war atrocities in Syria that have grown increasingly brazen: torture of prisoners, attacks on hospitals, sexual slavery.

    On Sunday, the panel confirmed that one of its three members — Carla del Ponte, a Swiss prosecutor who formerly led UN war crimes tribunals — had resigned.

    Speaking by phone from Ticino, Switzerland, Sunday, del Ponte said she had hoped the Security Council would either refer the case in Syria to the International Criminal Court or set up a special tribunal.

    “I was expecting to persuade the Security Council to do something for justice,” she said. “Nothing happened for seven years. Now I resigned.”