A team of Syrian investigators have risked their lives to collect secret government documents that provide evidence of war crimes by Bashar al-Assad and his regime. Will an international court ever hear their cases?…
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Intense field work is being undertaken to identify clues leading to war crimes taking place in Syria. This work is very risky but it is necessary in order for one day international justice can act…(In French)
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Mass atrocities began to be committed in Syria in March 2011. They were launched by the Syrian regime in response to peaceful protests by members of the civilian population. Initially, the situation appeared to replicate the one that arose in Libya the previous month. Unarmed citizens in the streets were met with lethal firepower of a repressive regime, protesters were pursued by the security forces into their neighbourhoods, and those captured alive were imprisoned and brutalized...
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In an exclusive interview with Al-Arabiya, the team was given direct access to view some of the hundreds of thousands of documents, which have been compiled by the Commission for International Justice and Accountability aimed at building cases for future prosecutions concerning crimes against humanity and war crimes in Syria… (In Arabic)
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In this rather gloomy context of injustice and impunity, some have been comforted by the fact that at least someone is doing something: For the last few years, a small number of private non-governmental organizations have been investigating and documenting evidence of crimes committed in Syria…
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Behind the blitz of airstrikes and land battles in Syria, an unseen army is hunting for special spoils of war: pieces of paper, including military orders, meeting minutes, prison records and any other documents that could help build cases for future prosecutions...
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Before the Syrian revolution, Samy, aged forty years , taught full time . Today, he tracks any document, snapshot or video that will identify suspected perpetrators of war crimes or crimes against humanity. For him, a man who has always hated weapons, another war began, in secret…
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Canadian lawyer William Wiley advised the Iraqi tribunal that tried Saddam Hussein. He and his team have collected and combed through more than half a million videos. But the most crucial element of this work is collecting a paper trail…
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The first time Ahmed was shot at by Syrian government forces he was outside Aleppo, driving in a car loaded with bags of incriminating documents. He could hear the gunfire aimed in his direction, the rounds passing close by in the dense night fog...
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For nearly two years, dozens of investigators funded by the U.S. and its allies have been infiltrating Syria to collect evidence of suspected war crimes, sometimes risking their lives to back up promises by Western leaders to hold the guilty accountable…
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