U.N. prosecutor plans to step down
The chief prosecutor of the United Nations war crimes tribunal confirmed that she would retire in September.
Carla Del Ponte, the tribunal’s third and longest-serving chief prosecutor, will be remembered primarily for overseeing the genocide trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, which ended when he died of a heart attack in his cell in March, before a verdict could be reached.
Del Ponte warned that the tribunal’s two leading fugitives, Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and his top general, Ratko Mladic, could go free unless they are arrested before the tribunal is shut down in 2010.
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