Marc Garlasco is an American former Pentagon senior intelligence analyst, now senior civilian protection officer for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and senior military advisor for the Human Rights Council (HRC). Having served for seven years at the Pentagon, becoming chief of high-value targeting, Garlasco left in 2003 and joined Human Rights Watch (HRW) as a senior military expert, specializing in battle damage assessment, military operations, and interrogations for the Emergencies Division, where he investigated human rights issues in a number of different conflicts zones. He served as senior civilian protection officer for UNAMA in 2011,heading the UN’s Protection of Civilians office. In early 2012, as the U.N. senior military advisor for the HRC’s Independent Commission of Inquiry on Libya, he investigated civilian casualties while leading a survey of NATO’s activities in Libya.
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