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Robert Petit, the Canadian Justice Department’s top specialist on war crimes, has been shortlisted as one of four candidates to replace Luis Moreno-Ocampo as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court — the top war-crimes tribunal.

During his 22-year career, Petit has specialized in international criminal law and criminal prosecution.

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He has worked for the past decade at the Justice Canada in the crimes against humanity and war crimes section. There, he provides legal advice to RCMP and police teams investigating persons currently in Canada, suspected of having committed violations of international humanitarian law and international criminal law in various countries.

From 1996 to 1999, he worked for the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, supervising investigations, indictments and prosecutions of numerous perpetrators of crimes committed during the Rwandan genocide.