The Prosecutor Who Secured the First Genocide Conviction in the Balkans War

Remembering Mark Harmon

Those who have worked in the trenches of the modern war crimes tribunals would know of Mark Harmon. He was a tall, rugged type of guy from California who earned his litigator chops as a public defender in San Francisco and then as a federal prosecutor managing the famous Alaskan Exxon Valdez oil spill case. He once told me that his ten years as public d…