{"id":34663,"date":"2017-09-18T14:45:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T12:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/34663-syria-war-crimes-investigator-blasts-impunity-in-farewell-speech.html"},"modified":"2017-09-18T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T12:45:02","slug":"syria-war-crimes-investigator-blasts-impunity-in-farewell-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/34663-syria-war-crimes-investigator-blasts-impunity-in-farewell-speech.html","title":{"rendered":"Carla Del Ponte blasts impunity in farewell speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-excerpt\">\n<p>Outgoing Syria war crimes investigator Carla Del Ponte said on Monday she had quit her post out of frustration over \"total impunity\", in a fiery farewell speech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Del Ponte, an accomplished war crimes prosecutor, announced last month that she was leaving the Commission of Inquiry (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/HRBodies\/HRC\/IICISyria\/Pages\/PressReleases.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COI<\/a>) for Syria, a UN-backed panel that has collected evidence of alleged atrocities committed in the country since the outbreak of civil war in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\"I resign to put an end to my frustration,\" Del Ponte <a href=\"http:\/\/webtv.un.org\/meetings-events\/human-rights-council\/watch\/id-commission-of-inquiry-on-syria-contd-15th-meeting-36th-regular-session-human-rights-council-\/5579446801001\/?term=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told <\/a>the Human Rights Council, after the COI presented its latest report.<\/p>\n<p>\"Seven years of crimes in Syria and total impunity. That is not acceptable\".<\/p>\n<p>Del Ponte, a Swiss national, worked on the international tribunals that prosecuted war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>She said that when she joined the COI she did not anticipate that the international community would fail to set up a court capable of trying crimes committed in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The commission has repeatedly urged the United Nations Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court, an effort that has been blocked by the Damascus regime's ally Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\"Why is it not possible to have a tribunal?\" Del Ponte asked, addressing some of her farewell remarks directly at Syria's UN ambassador Hussam Edin Aala.<\/p>\n<p>The COI has accused all sides -- including the government and rebels -- of committing war crimes in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Its most recent report, submitted to the rights council on Monday, charged Damascus with carrying out a chemical attack which killed dozens of people in Khan Sheikhun in April.<\/p>\n<p>A new UN body -- called the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism -- has recently started work in Geneva with a mandate to prepare cases against specific individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Del Ponte called that effort \"a little step towards justice\".<\/p>\n<p>But the mechanism's chief, Catherine Marchi-Uhel of France, cautioned earlier this month that her office was not a court and had no power to bring international charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing Syria war crimes investigator Carla Del Ponte said on Monday she had quit her post out of frustration over \"total impunity\", in a fiery farewell speech. 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