"These are crimes the world won't forget": Stephen Rapp on Syria

Syrian war crimes evidence strongest since Nuremberg trials, says prosecutor

Former United States Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes and member of CIJA's board of commissioners, Stephen J. Rapp, says evidence collected against the Syrian regime is the strongest amassed since the Nuremburg trials.

Will smuggled files lead to justice for the Assad regime's victims?

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Vem ska straffa Assad?

Assad’s Syria recorded its own atrocities. The world can’t ignore them.

Syrian regime documents in CIJA’s possession corroborate photographs in the Caesar collection, helping to verify the identities of thousands of missing Syrians who have perished in President Bashar al-Assad's prisons. The documents prove that authorities were aware of and at times ordered torture and other abuses committed in detention.

Syria's Disappeared

Internal communications from Syria's military intelligence implicate the regime's senior leadership in abuses committed in detention centres, showing that the head of military intelligence was briefed at his own request on every detainee's death. Britain's Channel 4 was granted exclusive access to documents in CIJA's possession proving that the regime's criminality was not only widespread but systematic.

Revealed: Syrian military leaders knew detainees were being tortured

Building the case against Assad’s regime

A concerted drive is underway in Europe to ensure accountability for the Syrian regime's egregious criminality. Spain's El Pais highlights the work of CIJA, the Caesar Files Group and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) as they push for prosecutions in European courts.

Writing Atrocities: Syrian Civil Society and Transitional Justice (Analysis Paper)

There is as much evidence against Assad as there was against the Nazis

Bashar Assad: 5 little-known facts about the controversial Syrian president

Could Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Be Tried As A War Criminal?

Harvard Law School’s Alex Whiting, a member of CIJA’s board of commissioners, speaks with
National Public Radio on the prospects of trying President Bashar al-Assad for war crimes.

If his day in court comes, evidence collected by CIJA will form a crucial component of his
prosecution.

Syrian Defector: Assad Forces Targeted, Killed Journalist Marie Colvin

'Marie deserved the truth': Assad regime deliberately targeted and killed journalist Colvin, investigation claims

TARGET: JOURNALIST How the Assad Regime Tracked and Killed Marie Colvin for Reporting on War Crimes in Syria

The Intercept details the murder of journalist Marie Colvin as she reported from the besieged neighbourhood of Baba Amr in 2012. In a federal civil lawsuit against the Assad regime underway in Washington, D.C. evidence and expert witness analysis provided by CIJA form a cornerstone of the prosecution.

Syrian Forces Aimed to Kill Journalists, U.S. Court Is Told

Investigators quietly probe allegations of Syrian war crimes

CIJA Director Chris Engels and Stephen Rapp, former U.S. Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes and member of CIJA's board of commissioners, tell ABC News about the paper trail of war crimes left behind by the Syrian regime. The vast amounts of evidence collected by CIJA and others "mean prosecutors have far stronger evidence of war crimes than what existed to convict the Nazis at Nuremberg".

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