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Luis Moreno Ocampo is the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). He is thus responsible for following up reports of war crimes and prosecuting defendants. Born in Buenos Aires and a citizen of Argentina, he gained a reputation prosecuting abuses by senior military officials and for his work to combat corruption
Legal career
A 1978 graduate of University of Buenos Aires Law School, Moreno Ocampo was a law clerk from 1980 to 1984 to the Argentinian Solicitor General before rising to prominence as the assistant prosecutor of the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons in the 1984-1985 "Military Junta" trial. The trial of nine senior figures, including three former heads of state, of the military dictatorship that ran the country from 1976 to 1983 resulted in five convictions. It was the first prosecution of senior commanders for the mass killing of civilians since the Nuremberg Trials followed the Second World War.
Over the next few years, Moreno Ocampo established a reputation for his willingness to confront the rich and the powerful of Argentina. In 1986 he was assistant prosecutor in the trial of senior members of the Buenos Aires Police Force, including General Ramon Camps, for gross human rights abuses. He was part of the extradition team that sent General Guillermo Suarez Mason to California, led the prosecution of the leaders of two military rebellions (in 1987 and 1990), and was the Main Prosecutor of the review for the military trial for malpractice against the commanders of the Falklands-Malvinas War.
In 1992, Moreno Ocampo left his position as Main Prosecutor of the Argentine Federal Court to start a law firm specializing in corruption control, criminal law and human rights law. At the same time he became an Associate Professor of criminal law at the University of Bueno Aires, a position which he continues to hold. He has also been a guest professor at Stanford University and Harvard Law School. As well as his professional duties, he has been highly active in the anti-corruption NGO Transparency International, being the former president of its Latin America and Caribbean office and a current member of its global governing board.
International Criminal Court
Moreno Ocampo was elected unopposed to the position of ICC Chief Prosecutor in 2003 by a ballot of more than 70 countries and sworn in on 16 June 2003. His initial investigations have concentrated on the abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the formal end of the Second Congo War, the insurgency of the Uganda-based Lord's Resistance Army and the Darfur conflict of western Sudan.
External links
- Chief Prosecutor biography, ICC official site
- Profile: Luis Moreno Ocampo, BBC News, 21 April 2003
- UGANDA: Interview with ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, IRIN news, 9 June 2005