{"product_id":"madame-prosecutor-confrontations-with-humanitys-worst-criminals-and-the-culture-of-impunity-9781590513026","title":"Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerlands attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999  she answered the United Nations call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role  Del Ponte confronted genocide and crimes against humanity head-on  struggling to bring to justice the highest-ranking individuals responsible for massive acts of violence in Rwanda  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Croatia  and Kosovo.  These tribunals have been unprecedented. They operate along the edge of the divide between national sovereignty and international responsibility  in the gray zone between the judicial and the political  a largely unexplored realm for prosecutors and judges. It is a realm whose native inhabitantspolitical leaders and diplomats  soldiers and spiesassume that they can commit the big crime without being held culpable. It is a realm crisscrossed by what Del Ponte calls the muro di gomma \"the wall of rubber\" a metaphor referring to the tactics government officials use to hide their unwillingness to confront the culture of impunity that has allowed persons responsible for acts of unspeakable  wholesale violence to escape accountability. Madame Prosecutor is Del Pontes courageous and startling memoir of her eight years spent striving to serve justice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650676678709,"sku":"ByrdShop_1590513029","price":346.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781590513026.jpg?v=1781800040","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/madame-prosecutor-confrontations-with-humanitys-worst-criminals-and-the-culture-of-impunity-9781590513026","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}