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The Final Judgement: Interviews
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 Judge Richard Goldstone served as chairperson of South Africa's Commission of Inquiry regarding Public Violence and Intimidation from 1991-1994 which came to be known as the Goldstone Commission. From August 1994 to September 1996 he was the first Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Since July 1994 he has been a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
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 Madeleine Albright was the first woman to hold the post of US Secretary of State and the highest ranking woman to serve in the American government. She was nominated by President Clinton in 1996, having previously served as US delegate to the United Nations between 1993-1996.
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 Dr Kim R. Holmes is Assistant Secretary, Bureau of organization Affairs, with responsibility for US policy relating to the United Nations and the International Criminal Court. He joined from the Heritage Foundation, the conservative Washington think-tank. where he was principal spokesman on foreign and defence policy issues. He sat on the Pentagon's defence policy board, chaired by Richard Perle, a former Reagan administration official and a leading advocate of military action against Iraq.
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 Lord Ashdown became the International Community's High Representative in Bosnia- Herzegovina in March 2002. The former Liberal Democrat leader was charged with bringing peace and prosperity to a country that was torn apart by the war in the nineties. A former Royal Marines Officer, Ashdown also spent time posted to the British Mission to the United Nations in Geneva where he was responsible for Britain's relations with a number of United Nations organisations. He was knighted in 2000 and was made a peer in 2001.
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 Carla del Ponte is Chief Prosecutor at the UN International Criminal Tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. 55 year old Carla del Ponte is arguably the most powerful criminal lawyer in the world. As chief prosecutor of the war crimes tribunals at the Hague and in Arusha, Tanzania, she is responsible not only for bringing Slobodan Milosevic to trial but also for prosecuting an entire government for genocide in Rwanda.
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 Richard Holbrooke was the US special envoy who could justifiably claim to have brought peace to the Balkans. It was his round-the-clock cajoling, hectoring and bullying that finally yielded the peace accord signed in Dayton, Ohio, in 1995. As Clinton's US ambassador to the United Nations four years later, he played a pivotal role in the war for Kosovo - once again winning plaudits for taking on some of the toughest, most-feared men in the world.
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 Mary Robinson had a sometimes controversial spell in office as the UN High Commissioner for human rights. The former president of Ireland, won the praise of human rights advocates. But she angered governments around the world with her outspoken and uncompromising criticism of their human rights records.
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