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Bellemare holds a Law degree from the University of Ottawa and completed a Masters of Law at the University of Montreal.
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After retiring from a long career in the Canadian legal system, Bellemare was named as a prosecutor for the United Nations Special Tribunal for Lebanon. He was called to the bar in the province of Quebec in 1976. He has served in various Canadian government positions, including Deputy Attorney General and Special Adviser to the Deputy Minister of Justice.
He is also the longest-serving head of the Federal Prosecution Service in Canadian history.
Bellemare was assigned by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon as the commissioner for the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) in September 2008, replacing Serge Brammertz of Belgium. In March 2009, he was named chief prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, mandated with solving the 2005 murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Bellemare"s performance with the South.T.L. was criticized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in a November 2010 report. The prosecutor was also quoted in the 2010 Wikileaks United States diplomatic cables leak scandal, where he expressed reservations with the United States. Governments" approach to the Hariri investigation in a 2008 cable, saying "if the United States doesn"t help me, who will?".
