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Syria proves to be too much for del Ponte

Seven years of war in Syria have claimed the head of Carla del Ponte. Despite having overseen the horrors of Rwanda and the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the experienced war-crimes prosecutor leading the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on Syria announced her resignation. “I am leaving this committee, which shows no political backbone. It is a failure,” she told Blick magazine. Del Ponte showed her frustration at the Security Council and launched harsh criticism against the organization which “is unable to work in a country where everyone is in the wrong,” adding that the Syrian president has committed war crimes and the opposition is made up of “extremists and terrorists.”

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