Luis Moreno Ocampo §

Born in Buenos Aires in 1952; deputy prosecutor in the 1985 trial of the Argentine military junta, the first prosecution of senior commanders of a state for systematic crimes against their own civilian population since Nuremberg, which formed the practical template for his later international work. Elected first Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in April 2003; opened investigations into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Darfur, the Central African Republic, Kenya, Libya and Côte d'Ivoire and obtained the indictments of Omar al-Bashir, Muammar Gaddafi and Joseph Kony. Stepped down in June 2012 and returned to private legal practice. On 7 August 2023 published a 25-page legal opinion concluding that the Lachin Corridor blockade by Azerbaijan since 12 December 2022 satisfied Article II(c) of the 1948 Genocide Convention, "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part", a conclusion he reiterated in expert testimony before parliamentary bodies in Europe and the United States.