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One Woman's Rage Against Injustice; Carla Del Ponte on the fatal bombing that helped turn her into the U.N.'s top war-crimes prosecutor.(United Nations)(Viewpoint essay)
Byline: Del Ponte is currently the chief war-crimes prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
It was the evening of May 23, 1992. I picked up the phone and heard that the Italian judge Giovanni Falcone was dead. A mafia bomb had destroyed Falcone's car, killing him, his wife and three of their bodyguards. The message was clear: mess with the mafia, and this is what happens. I was stunned, terrified. I thought of quitting prosecutorial work and going back to handling divorce and commercial cases. Then I began to burn with rage--against the mafia, impunity, injustice.
Falcone was a fascinating and courageous man, an ...
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- Magazine article from: Swiss News April 1, 2002 700+ words
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Source: HighBeam Research, One Woman's Rage Against Injustice; Carla Del Ponte on the fatal...