Veteran former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, who is on a UN commission probing rights abuses in Syria, says she intends to resign because the body “does absolutely nothing.”
“I am frustrated, I give up,” she told the Swiss newspaper Blick in an interview published on Sunday. “I have written my letter of resignation and will send it in the next few days.”
Del Ponte, a 70-year-old Swiss national, who came to prominence investigating war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, has been part of the four-member UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria since September 2012.
The commission has been tasked with investigating human rights violations and war crimes in Syria since shortly after the conflict erupted in March 2011, with anti-government protests that have evolved into a complex proxy war.
The continued violence has left more than 330,000 people dead and displaced millions.
— AFP
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