"There is no way to...cushion the disappointment and sense of anticlimax," writes Carla Del Ponte, the former chief prosecutor of the UN's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, "because the simple fact of failure is the simple fact of failure." These startling words conclude her book about the eight years she spent chasing Balkan war criminals. But perhaps they are not so surprising, after all.rnMs Del Ponte, a Swiss prosecutor, was appointed to the tribunal in The Hague in 1999. Ruthlessly harrying the former Yugoslavs into giving up those that the court had indicted for war crimes including genocide, Ms Del Ponte became the most loathed woman in south-eastern Europe.
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机译：联合国南斯拉夫战争罪行法庭前首席检察官卡拉·德尔·庞特（Carla Del Ponte）写道：“没有办法……把失望和反高潮的感觉缓冲起来，因为失败的简单事实就是失败的简单事实。”这些惊人的话总结了她追逐巴尔干战争罪犯八年的经历。但毕竟，也许这并不令人感到惊讶。瑞士检察官德尔庞特女士于1999年被任命为海牙法庭的成员。无情地伤害了前南斯拉夫，放弃了法院就种族灭绝，德尔庞特女士成为东南欧最讨厌的女人。
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