ibrahim was guided by residents to the location of the strikes surrounded by debris he started recording the evidence. it's just. it's a three of us doing something with that and then to determine what the after party i want. to also do. in showing the mr the little boy. ebrahim recovered an unexploded grenade which he believed to contain saddam gassed it was confirmed by these amateur videos filmed by a local camera man at the hospital inside just after the attack the symptoms left no doubts nausea vomiting and suffocation chemical weapons had been

used. six good morning everybody for barack obama it was the red line that could not be crossed the united states had promised to intervene if there was proof that bashar assad was using chemical weapons the following day the u.s. president spoke to the press ibrahim was convinced that the course of the war would change what we now have is evidence that chemical weapons have been used inside of syria but we don't know. how they were used when they were used who used them we don't have a chain of. custody that establishes what exactly happened. and i back in the one night or so i feel that a bit just from a metal mean keefe. but they'd been in job either less in the. name and didn't. make you feel.

in the short list for the surface or. brahim was determined to reconstruct the whole incident piece by piece he went to the house of many. the only victim killed during the attack. here is that all. this is the old roach story just this gate from the sky and many of us here and here duff there also was in the journal just around here so there is the burden it's really well known about muffin and. if the shift in looking over there will work in any order a new. model and follow up about that i don't have the

money that sort of thing. for ibrahim this videophone during the attack was proof enough. you can make out a falling bomb. log but it was confirmed that only the syrian army and such helicopters. ibrahim was convinced that he had a strong enough case to trigger american intervention and end the war. a few weeks later he met with officials from the united nations. one of the officials now lives in sweden.

vividly remembers that groene. an expert in non conventional weapons he was mandated by the un to investigate the use of chemical weapons in syria at the time . his team worked on sixteen alleged attacks including the one inside. we were met a number of people among them was a prime. showed us an admired man to work in the moment to information in school for thinking he was smart very smart and had a skinful thinking of how to secure he really aimed at securing the information that he gave us a key skill in. which the king. sent all sudden. and. a lot of the

facility. in a bra and opinion it was urgent for ten months similar attacks had taken place in rebel held areas ibrahim believed that the regime was testing barack obama that the bombing of their akiba could be a precursor to a larger attack. on august twenty first twenty thirteen his worst fears came true. last i can recall attack killed hundreds of people in a hotel in the suburbs of damascus the majority of casualties were civilians ibrahim's investigation hadn't stopped the massacre from happening but he had one last hope that sells times reports could point a finger towards those responsible the report was issued to the united nations six months later the use of chemical weapons etc and who was confirmed but those responsible were not named barack obama would not intervene unfortunately all the

work that he had carried out we couldn't just take his information and bring that in tora court it was not a phone chain of custody and that means that in the event that was followed could not be guaranteed that all steps was covered from the start on until it reached us or our tape. it was not like a movie field where you have every. square in that movie theater but if there were some cuts in the movie and that is not acceptable in a forensic investigation the video of the helicopter film during the attack was not sufficient to prove that the bombs had been dropped by that's aircraft. only the poisoning of merriam could be proven thanks to samples taken by his team from the victim's body. but nothing proved that the regime was responsible for the poisoning

the army and the rebels both rejected responsibility furthermore brahim was described as being close to the opposition. there was sure the can. and was owed on the will was a phone and of course to the new car even the motto of the. menace party when the out of the woodwork in the body of the dead duck that even. though we are young they can mold. their will to how use in the other stocks so that they're still in the mold already. will be of us in the three hundred that may be in the hood to create cost a lot of the be the in the. yeah the a dreamy for the winter and the very last is a because look to look to have a law that i have to say. jeez she had a little of that for nothing but it was not ibrahim's work that was in question but the traceability of the evidence what's more like all those collecting evidence

that brahimi is personally involved in the conflict they are all putting themselves in danger to do what only they can do preserve evidence of the syrian charges he was. pro-democracy protests began in march twenty levon ended up in the south of syria a group of teenagers sprayed revolutionary slogans on the walls of a school they were arrested imprisoned and tortured was was to protest and demand their freedom thousands of civilians took to the streets on the eighteenth of march twenty levon their retaliation by the security forces was bloody faced with this repression they used what they had their mobile phones they

filmed what was happening and shared it on social media. without knowing get the citizens and that started one of the largest collections of evidence in an ongoing conflict week. despite the flood of images there was condemnation but no intervention. was. on the ground the opposition started to take up arms. as the country plunged into war independent sources of information were by. coming more and more scarce. in turkey western n.g.o.s decided to train syrians to be their eyes and ears on the ground. they transformed the citizen activists into real investigators to be both professional and neutral. abdulla cada was one of them.

smacked another member i gave him i had sued him and not anyone was a. sucker. yellow mud on us with those in. the deck at all and sam cafferty up. today from gaza on top he leads a team of syrians like ibrahim who bring him videos and physical evidence of attacks against civilians. that you know i thought it was shot was that if you're bashar i want to point out ok here is one of their first videos filmed during the discovery of one hundred fifty dead bodies in the center of aleppo. and there's a new one but what i just what the man was like a man as your fact as i meet them them separate never make their son go but found

out then to be offered. the mano a mano if. he was doing that today. the video is striking but not convincing images are weapons and can be manipulated to change the course of history like intermission water romania. it was one nine hundred eighty nine these pictures of a mass grave were seen across the world and he said the fall of the dictator ceausescu the truth these bodies had been dug up from a neighboring cemetery by the opposition and syria is not an exception when it comes to these manipulations. so international organizations require irreproachable traceability mission to. lend me. a feed or let the. part of what i'm going to do the military talk about the journal more often. than a short be and me it. that if you do that enough for me and if you don't

own your soul what shipping heading. for your father was a commanding. lead. check and i jack. up till called there's teams had to learn how to film a crime scene. leaving their emotions aside. salon that has a cost we're still feeding just puts me off so we're going to have our full would you know you feel an urge i hate to have feel that it's just so out of mind as a good deal. to avoid any suspicion of manipulation the evidence collected in syria is just a matter q. stripped labeled and sorted in front of a camera abdul qadeer opened up a parcel coming from aleppo it contained the remains of a missing child that killed twenty five pupils at

a primary school. in south marshall filho stosh you don't want to. know and want to know if you put it on my should i don't have a lot of. other wunderlist those i'd share in the garden in my hut for the sun. these images are to guarantee the traceability of the information so that some day it can be used to convict those responsible in a court of law and how it did then did then the fifteenth about my mom and the house and. the. lemme harkening something and luckily. i had. it done by the. layover from india. i have had. an empty head get away with having to get on the high step to meeting me. if letting me know i left. for

a long time and you always were the only people on the ground collecting evidence of the war crimes committed in syria but in twenty thirteen a dossier endorsed by the opposition claimed to have proof of these crimes. and military defector code named caesar smuggled some fifty three thousand pictures out of syria many of which appeared to be of prisoners tortured to death by the regime. he was a photographer with the military police he claims that until twenty eleven he photographed accident scenes and crimes involving the military. but when the revolution started the bodies photographed by cesar didn't look like accident victims anymore he alerted sami an activist friend who had been

documenting atrocities since the beginning of the revolution sami was at the very heart of the operation agreed to speak on camera so this was his publicist. to sort of be susan. so to hold. finally. an order book. that really. only a mom of other demands it. turning on the what the little riley. president also delicious of. looking the police at mr the mother. i think it was as i think your son. i mean. just to the to my side on a horse. somebody would lie about the sword. but as early. as

saturday it will be tough but also he's also going to be talking of all sorts of. other useful sort of not as many as you see there. for two years caesar regularly uploaded thousands of photos onto u.s.b. sticks that he passed on to time. the pictures show men starved and tortured to death. they appear to be prisoners held in detention centers in damascus. cannot another cut them out because he wrote them. not the chance to buy the war fought. a war for years of thirty five and they just kind of. you know all that in the them and these are you know not. a lie and that the. that was. what should be could be done. here what is we have

always. been here to get out of the media. was. in aug twenty third team the photographer felt he was under threat the rebels helped him to escape tonight an exclusive new report alleging systematic torture and killing of prisoners by the assad regime. in early twenty fourteen caesar's images were. at least to the media and seen around the world a team of renowned war crimes prosecutors studied the pictures and interviewed caesar to establish off into city. despite the links with the syrian opposition the evidence was judged as admissible. in paris the

half abuse the director of the french diplomatic service saw the photos they were shown during a meeting at the k. door say eleven foreign affairs ministers were present. in the office so just to you could i want to talk to the joint news. and the d.p. decision about. could it appear more brought down. dollar or. the oil. is a day in some of vision mostly all the more. for your blood if you show me a play. said see. both were pong. industries sure you're not. the docks it takes time more for you deal and. caesar's photographs hit

a nerve with the french. and so my law is not of the most as from discrete of course didn't do predate it in wa the police officer said that the left found your place on ivy league to me that is unfair. from all. claiming they. did at the time gone back to this of course the purpose yeah even demo controversies in our city police to our victim. me yonder via the. nursery i've used to sometimes.