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Evidence To Indict Assad Smuggled Out of Syria
Covert international commission presents evidence against Damascus regime
13.05.2015 14:53
Evidence compiled by the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) is enough to indict Basher al-Assad and many of his supporters of war crimes, it is claimed.
The CIJA is made up of investigators who have worked on war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and the operation to unmask the situation in Syria has cost the life of at least one informant, leaving many more severely wounded as a result of torture at the hands of the Damascus regime.
Assad’s government has been largely immune to United Nations pressure because of the support is has enjoyed from Russia’s veto on the Security Council. However, recent losses and internal divisions now mean that alleged war crimes can be bought to the International Criminal Court.
In total 25 senior members of the Assad regime have cases against them that are stronger than those put forward in 2013 which suggested “the evidence indicates responsibility at the highest level of government, including the head of state.”
CIJA’s findings are based on around half a million documents, from district to government level, smuggled out of the country not just through government checkpoints, but also those controlled by various opposition forces. Anyone understood to be working for a Western organisation hoping to publish such evidence would face death, according to the CIJA.
The full extent of the conduct of the Assad regime will require an unlikely change of direction on the UN Security Council, or a likelier change of government in Damascus.
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Covert international commission presents evidence against Damascus regime
13.05.2015 14:53
Evidence compiled by the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) is enough to indict Basher al-Assad and many of his supporters of war crimes, it is claimed.
The CIJA is made up of investigators who have worked on war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and the operation to unmask the situation in Syria has cost the life of at least one informant, leaving many more severely wounded as a result of torture at the hands of the Damascus regime.
Assad’s government has been largely immune to United Nations pressure because of the support is has enjoyed from Russia’s veto on the Security Council. However, recent losses and internal divisions now mean that alleged war crimes can be bought to the International Criminal Court.
In total 25 senior members of the Assad regime have cases against them that are stronger than those put forward in 2013 which suggested “the evidence indicates responsibility at the highest level of government, including the head of state.”
CIJA’s findings are based on around half a million documents, from district to government level, smuggled out of the country not just through government checkpoints, but also those controlled by various opposition forces. Anyone understood to be working for a Western organisation hoping to publish such evidence would face death, according to the CIJA.
The full extent of the conduct of the Assad regime will require an unlikely change of direction on the UN Security Council, or a likelier change of government in Damascus.
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