An international war crimes prosecutor has resigned from her position on the U.N.’s Investigative Panel into human rights abuses in Syria over her frustration regarding the perceived impotence of the commission and the lack of ability to prosecute war criminals. Essentially, Carla Del Ponte is resigning because she and her panel have not been able to overcome Russian objections to framing Bashar al-Assad for crimes committed by America’s terrorists.
While admitting that Western-backed terrorists are made up “mostly” of extremists and that they have been guilty of war crimes, Del Ponte also peddled the disproven narrative that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons and that it is engaged in “terrible crimes against humanity.”
In her remarks announcing her resignation, Del Ponte, who is 70 years old, also admitted her own bias against the Syrian government since the beginning of the crisis. She stated that, when she was first appointed to the Independent Commission of Inquiry On Syria in 2012, “the opposition (members) were the good ones; the government were the bad ones.” Apparently, the woman so concerned with “crimes against humanity” was fine with “opposition members” randomly shooting civilians, raping women, slaughtering whole families and villages, and committing unspeakable acts against Syrian military soldiers and Syrian civilians. After all, she considered them the “good ones.” Only when the Syrian military began fighting back in earnest did “war crimes” become a concern.
“The Assad government is committing terrible crimes against humanity and using chemical weapons. And the opposition, that is made up only of extremists and terrorists anymore,” she said.
Del Ponte claims that the Security Council should have appointed a court similar to the ones for Rwanda and Yugoslavia but the decision to do so was vetoed by Russia.
Del Ponte is clearly frustrated at the fact that the Russians have prevented the U.N. from condemning and prosecuting Assad for crimes he did not commit. Thus, she will be leaving her post in September, leaving only two members left on the commission.
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Maybe she can take the neocon warmonger UN Ambassador Nikki Haley with her…
has she ever thought of the fact that she is living a lie?
and the UN and its security council are the propagators of this lie, they started it so that they could steal a sovereign nation, who have since refused to lie back and open their legs, and welcome the rape
The War Crimes Tribunal and the UN itself are suspect in my mind because they have yet to investigate the US and its support for terrorism in the Middle East. Nor have they brought any war crimes prosecutions against Clinton, Bush, Cheney or Obama, even though a million people are dead with their homes destroyed and many more millions are fleeing as refugees because of their war crimes. It is beyond disgusting and grossly hypocritical. I hope this woman gains the well deserved anonymity that her perverse, duplicitous, self righteous and useless, pretense of stopping war crimes warrants!