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Mr. Nicholas Koumjian is currently the Deputy General Prosecutor for Serious Crimes in East Timor. He heads the Serious Crimes Unit, which while UN-staffed and funded, is part of the Timorese prosecution service. The mandate of the Serious Crimes Unit is to prosecute cases of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, murder, torture, and sexual assaults committed between 1 January and 25 October 1999.
Prior to joining the UN mission in East Timor, Mr. Koumjian was a trial attorney at the ICTY from 2000 to 2003. In particular, he worked on the case of the Prosecutor v. Milomir Stakic, to date, the only case at the ICTY to result in a life sentence. From 1981-2000, Mr. Koumjian was a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County. He has also taught trial advocacy in Argentina, while serving as a member of the US Foreign Service, and worked as a volunteer on legal reform projects in Armenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Montenegro.