 The chief prosecutor of the U.N. war crimes tribunal confirmed Tuesday she will retire in September, frustrated that two of the three men most responsible for the mayhem in the Balkans during Yugoslavia's demise could end up going free. Carla Del Ponte, the tribunal's third and longest serving chief prosecutor, will be remembered primarily for overseeing former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's genocide trial, which ended before a verdict could be reached after he died of a heart attack in his cell in March. "After eight years, I have done my work. It's time for me to go back to a normal life," she told reporters. In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session, Del Ponte said that in the dozens of trials she has supervised including 20 in which the defendants pleaded guilty "I never saw one who had real remorse." Expressions of regret were only designed to ease their sentences, she said. ...
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