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Article: The little Swiss prosecutor who could: Carla Del Ponte may be only five feet tall, but as chief prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal and Slobodan Milosevic's principal foe, she looms larger than life. (Expat Profile).(International War Crimes Tribunal's war crimes case against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic)(Brief Article)
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- April 1, 2002
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Carla Del Ponte draws mixed reactions in Switzerland. Some admire her fearlessness; others sigh that she is an unpredictable eccentric. These days the diminutive prosecutor (she is barely five feet tall) is Switzerland's most famous-and visible-legal mind. As chief prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague, she is currently embroiled in a front-page event: the war crimes case against former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic. Since becoming only the third chief prosecutor in the history of the tribunal in 1999, Del Ponte has made Milosevic her prime target. After many false starts, a drawn-out extradition process with Yugoslavia and countless ...
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