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some viewers may find the following content disturbing. and in the end new and doesn't move no mind if new ideas for me it was. since the arab spring swept syria in twenty eleven tens of thousands of people have been arrested. nobody knows the true figure or how many are still held captive in the government's dungeons. i'm a career servant in the field of international curl justice. i want to the yugoslavia tribunal or want to try to be an all. i was the first investigator at the

international criminal court. this will be the final act in my career. bill wiley and his team of war crimes investigators have been smuggling material out of syria to a secret location in europe. we've extract about six hundred thousand pages of regime documentation. this hall of potential evidence abandoned by the syrian regime could help build the case for a prosecution before the international criminal court. the king or queen if you will of evidence in any international criminal investigation is always documentation it isn't really easily cross-examined it because it's it's factual it's truth. in the cache of papers the canadian

investigator has found thousands of internal communications relating to mass arrests. tens of thousands of syrians have been tortured into account in the regime's jails since twenty eleven. arrests and disappearances part of a systematic government policy. we're trying to lay the foundations for a prosecution along in the lines where the prosecutors can lead with heavy heavy irrefutable documentary material. stephen rapp former u.s. ambassador at large for war crimes has prosecuted some of the worst mass atrocity crimes in recent history he's working with bill wiley on the case. it was said nurnberg that the nazis were. marginally convicted on their own documentary evidence. of our country it's the wife the germans have documented mad they document things that even implicate said we didn't set out to build

a case against president assad or any other individual and we went where the documents took us. the paper trail first led to the protests that began in syria in twenty eleven and to the fate of many of those who had taken to the streets. yes we must the mother is sure it is or. it will be shipped off of us here. at the mouth of the. gun. but not stored on the. muzzle and came from a middle class leftwing family who had been targeted by the syrian regime for

decades for wanting democratic change. they opposed the authoritarian rule of the assad clan that had governed syria with an iron fist for over forty years. and in twenty eleven the arab spring swept across syria. because. the scene to film a lot. i'll bet is that they hit the. mark. while. the mother and father. just that much of. that child to want to maggie and nor.

mahram hora teacher from damascus was a supporter of the regime and a member of president assad's ruling ballots party. but her youngest son a hum a dentistry graduate joined the protests. a second round i'm so glad some. kind of tears of the i welcomed me is in any. kind of tears for having been see anyway. although mario i'm opposed to demonstrations at first she was won over by her sons and two zero zero. the new shots almost funny. you don't want them out was sure what he said and he. thought how he can annoy. the hustlers and what they needed to have a consultant get. it.

because of the money cos i've read and child abuse in the harry. yeah i mean you know been there william and then you heard a very. interesting. out. from the very outset president assad's forces responded by shooting protesters killings cores of people. but the regime's violent repression just brought more protesters out onto the streets. talk is it looked like it was losing control it issued an order to arrest people on an unprecedented scale. comes. war crimes investigators have pieced together what happened behind the scenes.

among the six hundred thousand pages of smuggled syrian intelligence documents they discovered this. this is the key document which sets out the policy of the regime after several months of protests it sets out the categories of persons to be detained for interrogation so in particular finance years of demonstrations persons who instigate demonstrations and persons who communicate with foreign media or international organizations who as it says here tarnish the image of syria. the order came from the top of the syrian regime from a central crisis management cell set up to deal with the protests the investigators have thousands of documents showing it was passed all the way down the chain of command. the regime was hammering peaceful protesters.

and security forces made mass arrests and the regime created more detention facilities to cope with the influx of detainees hospitals became part of the system . one of them was to shareen military hospital in damascus. mohammed on how to work at the hospital for the regime he's a defector he had an emergency department and was there when some of the first protesters were brought in by the security forces. and so long. for the for the island of the live. your much of the. journey. south. of jodi. can address.

that. at their age but i have a lot of. an idea. what the twenty five double. over. more than two hundred thousand people were arrested in a matter of months. mahram son and started working for a syrian human rights group documenting the disappearances. the first time i met i i was in my office and he was coming to me joking and he was like smiling he has like suspicions more. i thought he was funny and he was very nice. monsoor are all mahdi and am had only been working at the human rights organization

for a month when their offices were raided by the security forces. soldiers were coming in like they were in a button field they were cutting grass fields pointing at us the russians we were all shocked. i think the americans killed their own. men. i mean i'm sure we. can make these you know we had a highly. the air force intelligence branch admits a military airport in damascus where am months or in their colleagues were taken is the site of one of the most notorious detention facilities in syria. some of us were like destroyed. we were of course and.

i have been was different really he was like smiling trying to make us smile i hear what he said he wanted us to sing with them all the time after a month months or an am more moved to another detention facility. because as a doctor they were beating him or it was like. they used to come the soldiers used to come down. the us where is the doctor that's what they say so each time he came in he had two or three open wounds and the other the rest of his body is raped or. he changed he he was silent all the time. maybe because of the of the beating he was going to cause he suffered so much. i don't know how he had of that. meanwhile

muslim had also come to the attention of the security forces for organizing protests in his hometown. and he fled to damascus to evade capture. investigators have thousands of arrest lists of who was wanted by the regime. we're asking them to search through them for muslims name. ok so we've got hit here. it's no mater. what's been logged here is a note dated january two thousand and twelve indicating that a certain mars in the mater and indeed certain of his associates should be picked up or detained if they come across him what effectively they're saying is we're looking for him and if you come across him arrested. in march twenty two our own from our son was in a cafe with his nephews after they would help supply baby formula to

a besieged area. by the initial cut. on those the whole of the law that was just in the. head while song that. i was so i said no we're in a way. that was me out that. is for me i don't want for one is then the other. film so.

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all the for hire. and their. secret location in europe bill one of these investigators are building a criminal case against the syrian regime. using their cache of smuggled intelligence documents. they've interviewed hundreds of people whose names appear on the regime's arrest lists and interrogation notes. the treatment of detainees in different parts of the country did not differ in any substantial way too many people have been physically abused people have been psychologically abused too many people died in detention of unnatural causes. to say that there's anything else but a widespread and indeed systematic. practice of abuse. witnesses

say the abuses weren't confined to the detention centers even when they were sent to hospital for treatment to torture continued. muslim says he was so severely beaten that he was urinating blood. he was taken to a military hospital close to the detention facility hospital six zero one. zero. eight. zero. zero. zero zero let's look at it. plus a little less what i would like it oh clear that.

flight. we just adequate secular but just as played think it looks it just. search has had that when it. has had a glass of gin biplanes fear. so after i left and that's the way i like that idea. of the bottle neck local all while much better handle that i left for the sphere stuff that the smallest one a sandwich meal at. hospital six or one is less than a kilometer from president of science palace. detainees were also taken to the to sri military hospital where mohammad was working for the regime.

people with the county the. what the clean. a b a to live up the woods or made up the woods hole you could look into shaheed the cover. of the cellar. for how the war. was set and your had more know your model. of the law and a lot of money. and i'm all the figure high all the for you have a short up for cali i'm out of your cookbook i'm outta europe up the cabbage on that and i'm unstoppable already how the market can either i don't want to feed her the macand for your mill a young to be under the gun or featuring the last few months just for humans that's for but the more. i learned that a part of your sort of yemen evolvement said that fashion. hospitals are implicated in the regime is own records. for example war crimes investigators have found this

memo from detectives in one province to their superiors complaining of a problem. quote parents and relatives of the arrested persons are daily asking about the fate of sons fathers and brothers you want to listen to what they have to say the hospital refrigerator is full of unidentified corpses that have disintegrated since they have been there for a long period of time and what's particularly interesting in this case is that this individual has copied the minister of justice so this localized problem is being brought to the attention of damascus. that means the syrian regime knows exactly what's going on. it knows who has been detained and what has happened to them but they refuse to give any information to the families. tens of thousands of people are thought to be still missing in detention including

over two thousand children. sometimes prisoners are released. son adam was freed after three months but monsoor and his cell mates were kept in jail without any contact with the outside world. i talked to them or you said to them i want to tell you something that's more than what we need to keep it secret this is ok. i told him we have like. fifty seven people here and we need to write all their names with details as much as possible so when some one of us go out counting those names with them so we started like looking for the tools. they tore off pieces of their shirts found a fragment of chicken bone to write with and used rust and their own blood as ink.

and we started collecting names and writing them every day all the names of the doings we were already that somebody could leak this news division or its likely game military formation to the enemy because the names of you jimmy's in a mature place is secret information you could be having tore it if they knew about it. meanwhile merriam son a ham was back at university doing his master's thesis in dentistry. it was there where six months after his release members of the students' union aligned to the regime that kidnapped him and handed him over to military intelligence. he was taken to detention facility to one in five. on the. us it's article that me and that there are found in the nie i mean i am in the

emphasis on the neverland. and in the mean death i do afford no money from what i usually it was who cannot. admit all of them not all up there on me and there that little other than mine and she. but niam did not give up risking arrest herself she continued to press the regime for information about her missing son. by this time mansoor had secretly documented the names of his fellow detainees on scraps of cloth. now they had to find a way to smuggle them out of jail. one of us he was a tailor and he said i can do it i can put it inside the hem of the shirt and inside the corners. so nobody will suspect that we bleached

to each other the first one who will. will wear it to get out of it. was called the. months or got the names out. when i look at those should be says written of blood blood of people who are still there some of them i knew i go to use their own or do. i have their blood with me i have the outrage. i feel it it's filled with swords with their swords. i called many families

and their families need to know at least they have the right to know if their sons are dead or alive. eighteen months after am disappeared still searching for and. she constantly requested information about him from the military police. to make any only you know she had. to side off of my guitar in seattle. the assistant gave my arm this is not. enough i. think you mean let me were sitting. just says lol just so it all so high even the image and. the note says that they had a corpse number three hundred twenty died on november eleventh twenty twelve only six days after he had been arrested. all this time the regime had known he

was dead but refused to tell her. like other detainees families must finally given a death certificate stating that her son had simply died of a heart attack in a hospital. but she refused to believe that version of events and was determined to find out the truth. had the finally condemn bizarre in a woman with a heinous you know newest but. toll free. battled. you know me in particular. had a little mini mess in the muscle. and had to assess if he. would or a humble. know that oakley thing and that then he had to me. bams

still unexplained death is symbolic of the fate of many critics of us as a regime. thousands of syrians still disappear into the network of detention centers across the country but the regime stubbornly continues to deny any allegations of torture. until a defector from the regime provided proof code named caesar his identity was kept secret. he said he had been a member of the syrian military police working as a forensic photographer at tishri military hospital and hospital six o one. he escaped from syria with thousands of photographs. the regime had been painstakingly documenting its own crimes. the scenes are photographs show the corpses of almost seven thousand people who died in regime custody one of them is corpse three hundred twenty from detention center two one

five. i looked at the dome i knew it was a him it was him it was his oh use a roof and i missed him and. so what has it there's just the sort of you know c'mon nick i had a cutie or harming them i knew why the. new news for the new model has zero to do. like going to most of the businesses most famous just.

who. are here and i mean i'm on. and then took on the incident should pull up to put the leave this is a smile it's not within the mindy a bit of. who . umaga is going to geneva to demonstrate outside the united nations building and call for the release of syria's disappeared detainees. he'll wear the flag of the revolution around his shoulders. that he's printed out photos to take with him in some cases there are entire

families like this photo of a syrian just champion with her husband and children. they're all in prison. miles in was released after eighteen months in detention and now lives in the netherlands but several close family members are still missing in a sense prison's he doesn't know if they're dead or alive. it's five years to the day the protests began in syria as muslims fellow travelers had to geneva to take part in demonstrations. us that are still sitting in the songs of the syrian revolution. let's. pull over. it. like miles and many of them were detained and

tortured. some have had their homes destroyed all of them have friends or family who've been disappeared by the syrian regime. they're determined to get their loved ones free. yeah. yakob. a. guy. that was. all. in the although the lot of. us alison. was tens of thousands of people are missing without

a trace. the un has accused the syrian government of the murder rape torture and systematic extermination of detainees all crimes against humanity but a security council resolution to refer syria to the international criminal court was vetoed by russia and china. rozen and his colleagues are also campaigning for the release of civilians held by groups fighting assad's regime the so-called islamic state and other islamist groups. will come on tell us a little notice. that jalil. i'm sure. we saw that still sell it. but the effectiveness of such campaigns is still open to question. the syrian regime is still locking up its political opponents.

stephen ross former u.s. ambassador at large for war crimes issues is suing the assad regime. in syria is this for just he's trying to bring public attention to the victims in the seas are photographs in exhibitions around the world. and i want to thank you for being here tonight to bearing witness to these. and stating your solidarity with these very. rapid is frustrated by the failure of the un to act on the overwhelming evidence of the syrian regime's crimes. we're talking about the security services reform of state security threat military security with all of the air force intelligence within the chain of command official forces this is silly this is the clearest case that i've ever seen this is

abundant evidence that we've got more so much more that maybe. it's embarrassing and a way to protect ways of saying well you know court to thank you but there is one route to justice and rap is pursuing it hundreds of syrian families have identified their loved ones from the seas are photographs if just one of the thousands of victims was found to be a european national or one of the perpetrators of these crimes was found on european soil that would present a way of opening a case against the syrian regime in a european court. how is your health and everything you feeling ok yeah ok as much as it is helping right the case trying to identify members of the regime who slipped into europe. he very much wants to be a public witness and that record it's good to great risk so why after you've done

all this to this to us to me what more can you really do i remember women who whose children have been killed came to speak to me in another conflict zone and then later that day proceeded by security forces. who threatened out and said just go ahead and kill us just kill us we can't tell a story so and so there is that point that witnesses reach which makes it hard for any student discount the truth coming. out of the norm as in the. morning you know he had missed an unofficial miss and in kenya dean was a. nice thought feel the norm theming know me at the well i left and outside.

do you know how i came in said ross and for all i mean you could. hear him and his so sad that man you're. hearing is a shit and we. miss him a little does he. know that and. much of what that outstanding young hickey. like most of the families whose loved ones have died in detention i'm still has no idea what happened to her son's body. i don't know who was then the. image of i am being measured and multiply. any

moment new look great how come the senate said look line you listed the unnamed this is a concept here normally i mean more on going to deal with president assad still denies any wrongdoing when confronted with the seas are photographs like this was his response over the five the pictures with a very funny but they're not he did it in photoshop it's all just propaganda i just thinking it was they want to do when i proceed in government in every war you can have any individual crime that happened you know or the word anywhere but it's not the policy. amnesty international estimates that between twenty eleven and twenty fifteen up to thirteen thousand people were executed it says in one prison alone said nyah mass hanging's were authorized by the highest levels of government i don't know what's goes on in that prison have you been there no i haven't of being

in the presidential palace but it was because. when i asked about any other allegations aside refused to come and. look in on the. forward a community anything can see from honest broker in hollywood. you know that's a sitting on the docket nurnberg but concentration falls or stuff and we don't expect compassion so that's what we have come up processes or account of a simple problem that it is that they themselves don't want to hear and reject. then suddenly there's a breakthrough. the sister of one of the victims in the series of photographs is a syrian spanish dual national and is filing a case against the syrian regime for the torture and murder of her brother claiming that she is also a victim of the crime. i'm a dane i'm done under

a renowned international human rights lawyer has taken on the case she and grant are filing it today in spain's national court in madrid. the charge is state terrorism for the state itself to use those institutions to terrorize their own people basically to send a message if you dare rise up to get their demand your they're your god given rights you're going to be tortured and murdered. stephen around and the legal team are naming nine individuals in the complaint including the leaders of syria's intelligence and security services part of president assad's inner circle. the focus will now turn to getting arrest warrants to apprehend the alleged perpetrators if they ever leave syria this is the beginning of justice for those circles that this.

court case may bring justice for the dead the urgent need is to free those still inside we need those who are detained to be free and able are still detained lost a lot of their guns. we all know this we have evidence where people go that way doing missing toward the. village at the side of a you know. in this. little man oceana village that asylum clearly official for the. others in the capital. sort of mine where they sell the guy you have to deal before that bush out of this at the moment this will fit in oh well you tell them oh i know i should. unless of course a lot of the lady. when they get out of the lot that i do.

not know god they will not succeed in dividing us about not succeed in taking the people off the streets because we're tired of this dictatorship. taking a stand global news that matters d. w. made for minds. to heal. the scars on.

the pain still tangible. the suffering for god. to see the edge by. they have survived but do they also have a future. i really understand people who say they don't want to stay here. but i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something . new beginning in peace time more the people making it possible what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance. out of darkness cities after a war. starts september second on g.w. .

this is. from berlin tonight police in eastern germany braced for a third night of violence as tensions over migrants and seen a phobia remain high several people were injured sunday and monday in the city of camden it's it happened after a german man was stamped to death in two foreigners were arrested the german chancellor making it clear there will be no tolerance of mob violence against foreigners also coming up our killer robots the future of warfare at a u.n. conference in switzerland there are calls to ban were.