{"id":1385,"date":"2017-08-07T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T01:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/07\/we-are-powerless-un-syria-investigator-carla-del-ponte-quits-over-lack-of-political-backing\/"},"modified":"2017-08-07T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T01:10:10","slug":"we-are-powerless-un-syria-investigator-carla-del-ponte-quits-over-lack-of-political-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"&#039;We are powerless&#039;: UN Syria investigator Carla del Ponte quits over lack of political backing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss former attorney general investigating Syria atrocities says: \u2018I have no power as long as the security council does nothing\u2019A member of the UN commission of inquiry on Syria said on Sunday she was quitting because a lack of political backing from the security council had made the job impossible, according to reports. Carla del Ponte, 70, who prosecuted war crimes in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia, told a panel discussion on the sidelines of the Locarno film festival she had already prepared her letter of resignation, said Swiss national news agency SDA. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/aug\/07\/we-are-powerless-un-syria-investigator-carla-del-ponte-quits-over-lack-of-political-backing\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;We are powerless&#039;: UN Syria investigator Carla del Ponte quits over lack of political backing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss former attorney general investigating Syria atrocities says: \u2018I have no power as long as the security council does nothing\u2019A member of the UN commission of inquiry on Syria said on Sunday she was quitting because a lack of political backing from the security council had made the job impossible, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}