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What roles did Louise Arbour serve in international law?

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Louise Arbour served as the chief prosecutor of war crimes for the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia from 1996 to 1999. Arbour became UN high commissioner for human rights in June 2004, replacing Sérgio Vieira de Mello, who had been killed in August 2003 when the UN headquarters in Baghdad was bombed.