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some viewers may find the following content disturbing. now mounted from what i usually it was. since the arab spring swept syria 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 so. servants in the field of international criminal justice. to the yugoslavia

tribunal rwanda tribunal i was the first investigator at the international criminal court. as 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 extracted about six hundred thousand pages of regime documentation. this all 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 if it

is because it's it's factual it's truth. in the kind 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 rapper 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 for. largely convicted on their own documentary evidence. yet of countries it's the life of journalists that have

documented mad they documented things that even implicate so we didn't set out to build a case against president assad or any other individual 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. i guess we must ensure there is. still a vision of the five of us here. tomorrow and the. gun. violence but not sort of the. most and we 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 then twenty years left and the arab spring swept across syria. because. since true from a lot. i bet it's us that they are. the mother and goodness father. just that most of. that child to

want to not be a normal cook. maran her teacher from damascus was a supporter of the regime and a member of president assad's ruling baath party. but her youngest son. a dentistry graduate joined the protests. a second time so again. something. kind of the i welcome when you see any. kind of cheered for how the d.c. anyway. although mario opposed the demonstrations at first she was won over by her sons and through c.s. . the new shots on her son. you don't want them out was sure what he said and he found out how to how he can annoy. us and what an event that he had

will cause all. it. was. because of the money side of it and he shot abuses in the harry. yeah i mean you know that only him and then you heard a very. interesting. out. from the very outset president assad's forces responded by shooting protesters killing scores of people. but the regime's violent repression just brought more protesters out onto the streets. ah ha just looked like it was losing control it issued an order to arrest people on an unprecedented scale.

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 interrogations solve 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. the 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. muhammadan home worked 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. other top the live gunman went for. your. journey. south.

of you are the better jodi you. can address that. you'll get a bill had a lot. of. what they do but i'll have a lot of. and i do you know what i mean the can model what the twenty five or. so out of the can do. more than two hundred thousand people were arrested in a matter of months. madame sun and i'm started working for a syrian human rights group documenting the disappearances. the first time i met him i was in my office and he was coming to me joking and he was like smiling he has like a special this morning. i thought he was in a funny and he was very nice. monsoor. omari 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 isn't the essential fear. i think the americans can lay out on. the men. minutes i mean i'm sure we. can make these or we'll highlight. the air force intelligence branch admits a military airport in damascus or amman sore and 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.

was different really he was like smiling trying to make a smile he said he wanted us to sing with them all the time after a month months or and him were 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 but 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 red or blue he changed he he was silent all the time. maybe because of the other beating he was getting because he suffered so much. i

don't know how he had done it. meanwhile a muslim had also come to the attention of the security forces for organizing protests in his hometown. he fled to damascus to evade capture. investigators have thousands of arrest lists of who was wanted by the regime. riyadh them to search through them for muslims name. ok so we've got a hit here. it's a mosque no mater what's been logged here is a note dated january two thousand and twelve indicating there are certain muslim martyr 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 my arrest. in march twenty two ohm from us

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their. secret location in europe bill wiley's 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 the 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. eight. plus a little less than what i would like it. clear that. flight

. we just had a secular but to stand slated to play looks it. up so it has had that where this. has had a glass of gin by the post fear. so after i left and that's the way i like that it. was called oh i left but i had all that i left for the sphere. this was what he said wish meal. hospital six or one news less than a kilometer from president assad's promise. detainees were also taken to the to sri

military hospital where mohammad was working for the regime. if people were counted up just how they want to be shushed be a to live up the woods or the make up the woods hole in the shahid the open cover. of the cellar. for how to file your bottle because. he had more know your. a lot and a lot of money. and i'm all the fifty year high all the folks here to shore up for cali a man if you're a cop the amount of fuel up the car they don't know and i'm not and. i don't want to if you heard the mechanic for your mil a young. feature in the last few months for you must push for but the more. i learned that a part of the sort of german involvement as a bit. spittles are implicated in the regime is own records.

for example war crimes investigators have found this memo from detectives in one province to there is a period is 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 am 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. i told him we have like. criticism people here and we need to read all their names with details as much as possible so when someone of us go out can tell you 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 he started collecting names and writing them every day all the names of the detainees who were worried that somebody could leak this news division or it's likely came military formation to the enemy because the names of the dinies in a mature place is secret information you could be having tor it if they knew about it. meanwhile my arm son a ham was back at university doing his master's thesis in dentistry. it was there were six months after his release members of the students' union aligned to the regime kidnapped him and handed him over to military intelligence. he was taken to a detention facility to one in five. on the.

us it's not that me and that there are finally uni i mean i'm in a fix on the neverland. and in a in need of old narmada from what i usually it was who gives up i'll admit a lot for them not all up there on me and they're that little and i didn't mind 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 monsoor 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. 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 be of out. to get out of there. was called the two. months or got the names out. of those should be says written of blood blood of people who are still there some of them i knew i go to the owner. i have their blood with me i have now dried. 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 i am disappeared still searching for and. she constantly requested information about him from the military police. to make any only you know who she is i had. to sign off of my make it in seattle. the assistant gave my arm this not. enough. thinking me just let me were sitting. just says sol just so it got a call so high e. it will not in the month and. the note says that they have

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 beside. newest but. new who is to feel we've been in the battle but. you know me in particular. had. this in the muscles found the knee and then had to assess if he knew.

that oakley thing and that then she had to me. pam's still unexplained death is symbolic of the fate of many critics of us as are. 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 additionally 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 caesar

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 phone i knew it was a him it was him it was his or use a riff and i missed them on. the what has it to sort out in common big news in gravity is it beauty or the harm done i do wired and no use for you here a new model has author who you. think.

going to measure for measure is most famous just. who. be and i mean the one. and then took on the incident should pull up the soup of the live this is a little known within the mindy a battle of. who . moderate is going to geneva to demonstrate outside the united nations building and call for the release of syria's disappeared detainees. will wear the flag of the revolution around his shoulders.

i saw these are printed out photos to take with them 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 current and demonstration. us that they're still singing the songs of the syrian revolution. let it. go lol.

like my zen many of them were detained and tortured. some have had their homes destroyed all of them have friends or family who have been disappeared by the syrian regime. they're determined to get their loved ones free. get cut yakob get. a. payout. that will see. you all. in all though the fall. of a little fun. for

. 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. miles 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 islam is to groups. will come on tell us a little announce. that jalib. i'm sure. we'll see that so sell it. but the effectiveness of such campaigns is still open to question.

the syrian regime is still locking up its political opponents. steven rattner former u.s. ambassador at large for war crimes issues is suing the assad regime. in syria as if this were 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 crimes. 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 firm that state security without military security without 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 going away at the check clears and so we've got no court to take it but there is one route to justice and rap is pursuing it hundreds of syrian families have identified their loved ones from the season 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 that's ok as much as it is helping right but the case trying to identify members of the regime who have slipped into europe. he very much

wants to be a public witness and that record it's good to great restaurants are like after you've done all of 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 preceded by security forces. who threatened that and said just go ahead and kill us just kill us and we can tell your story i was told and so there is that point where the witnesses really true church makes it hard for any student discount the truth to come out. other than new orleans and so they have mourned in a hammock that none of us and i didn't know and they didn't know most of. the

starfield norm theming know me at the well i left in the sun. but you know how i came in said ross and for the immediately. came. to him and he kissed so sad that man and. i hear the music of the ship and we. miss it at all it always does you. know that and also the long. merge but the dirty any. 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. and the lose then with

the journalism i am being as been known to play. annie and i meant new look great how come the show and said look this is the the in this is a concept here normally i mean for the movie. children let's not president assad still denies any wrongdoing the photo when confronted with the seas are photographs like this was his response oh very high picture. with a very funny but they're not it in photoshop it's all just propaganda i just think in you with they want to do when i proceed in government in every war you can have any individual across the top and you know over the world anywhere but it's not the policy. feministing 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 been in the presidential palace to do this because. when asked about any other allegations aside refused to comment. on the clean on the. phone he community anything can see from. the work on hundred one you know lots is sitting on the docket garber concentration camp or stuff and we don't expect a question so that's what we have come up processes to work out a based upon probably the gravitas that they themselves don't want to hear an exact . then suddenly there's a breakthrough. this ister 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 dina brown under a renowned international human rights lawyer has taken on the case she and russia are filing it today in spain's national court in madrid. the charge is state terrorism where the state itself use those institutions to terrorize their own people basically to send a message if you dare rise up to their demand your birth your god given rights you're going to be tortured and murdered. stephen ran into 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. his 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 so

for those victims. for the court case may bring justice for the dead the urgent need is to free those still inside. those who are detained to be free and able are still getting lost a lot of their guns we all use we have evidence well pull that why we're doing nothing about. it. let's let. sort of why what they said the guy you have a zero as to be almost pulled out bush out of us at the moment who are additional for the oh we tell all and then if it. unless it was the white dog or.

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a feeling of being part of something. my what remains of those events today. the seeds of civil rights. peace movement. is here. nine hundred sixty eight the global revolt starts september first on g.w. . italy and hungary say they will push for a new hardline policy on immigration across europe hungary and prime minister viktor orban and italian deputy prime minister salvini met in milan to cement their political ties they say they'll make migration the central issue in european elections next year. germany's government says it's ready to send federal police as

backup to the eastern city of chemist's that's after two days of violent anti immigration protests and count.