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some viewers may find the following content disturbing. and in the end new doesn't move and no amount of what i use for me it was not. 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 servants in the field of international criminal justice. i want to the yugoslavia tribunal for rwanda tribunal. 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 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 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 and killed in the regime's jails since twenty eleven. are 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. marginally convicted on their own documentary evidence. from truths life the germans have documented mad they document things that even implicated in said oh 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 love that story and it is sort. of the shift of of what i see here. i i came out of the. gun. a lot saw the. most and came from a middle class leftwing family who had been targeted by the syrian regime for

decades for wanting them accredit 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 unleavened the arab spring swept across syria. ah ha. ha ha. since to form a lot. i bet if. ya lot or. the mama and good in the past fall hard. just that much of. the would not be now nor. 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. some. kind of tears of the are welcome when you see any. kind of cheered for how the media anyway. although mario opposed the demonstrations at first she was won over by her sons and through zero. the new shots almost funny. you don't want them out was sure what he said and he. thought how he can annoy. us and what an event that he had was all. it.

took him to come on the side me and sat on the beaches in the heavily. yeah i mean no been there when eamonn the anyhow terry. insisted and took him 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. was optimistic and 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 interrogations soul 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. mohamed on how it 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. of the live gunman went for. a lot of. jodi. south. of. canada just set

up. that you know that i had a lot. of. at that age about how they left it off and a lot of. what the twenty five. over. more than two hundred thousand people were arrested in a matter of months. my own son and him 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 those patients more and. i thought he was funny and he was very nice. monsoor. omani 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 carrying go i phones pointing at us the russians we were all shocked is and their sons will feel. i think the americans can their. men. i mean i'm sure we. can make things easier we'll highlight. the air force intelligence branch admits a military airport in damascus where i 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 a small he what he said he wanted us to sing with them all the time after a month monsoon or an am war 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 handled 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. we're asking them to search through them for muslims name. ok so we've gotta hit here. it's a mosque no mater. what's been logged here is a note dated january two thousand and twelve in the katyn there are certain moslem amata 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 to own for muslims in a cafe with his nephews have to they would help supply baby formula to

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in a secret location in europe bill one of these investigators are building a criminal case against the syrian regime. using their cash 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 three 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. eight. i let it. slip in less than what i would like it.

fly. we just had a second but just as lead to think tipping exit just. so would end up. that when it. has had a glass of gin. please three years for the job. so after i lie down that's the way i doubt it if i still look local oh i left that had all that i left for the sphere. than a small one a selfish meal. hospital six or one is less than a kilometer from the president on science promise. detainees were also taken to the to sri military hospital where mohammad was working for the regime.

people with the counties up. there what the clean. a b a to live up the woods or the made up the woods hole in the shaheed the. cellar over cannot. for how do what. we said and you'll hear more now your more little. of the law and a lot of money and i'm out you up in a gun and all the fifty year high all the for you have a short book for kelly amount if you're a cop the amount of fuel up the cabbage on the enema and some. i don't want to if you had the macand for your mil a young. lady in a feature in the last few months this for if you miss this for but the more. i learned that a part of your sort of an evolving civil fashion. hospitals are implicated in the regime's own records. for example of 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 the 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. from son am was freed after three months but months or 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 can take 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 unions who were worried that somebody could leak this news division or it's likely came military information to the enemy because the names of the dinies in a mature place is secret information you could be having tore 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 where 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 five. on the. us it's article that me and that there are found in the nie i mean i mean if it's on

the net i will arm one in the immediate death and withhold narmada from what i usually it was who goes out and admit a lot for them not all up the one year and they're that little and i wouldn't mind seeing. 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 said the corners. so nobody will suspect that we bleached to each

other the first one who will. will wear it. out of. what's 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 are new i go to the owner. i have their blood with me i have. a feeling it's for. many families

and the families need. to know at least they have the right to know if their sons are dead or alive. eighteen months after him disappeared still searching for and. she constantly requested information about him from the military police. i meant any only and no she had. to sign off of my kit in seattle. the assistant gave my arm this is not. enough i. think ima just let me were sitting. just says lol just so it got up on so high e. it will in the meantime fancy i'm a little mit and. the note says that they have 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 or. 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 him a woman with a heinous newest but. toll free. battled. you know me in particular. had. this in the muscle and i kind of had to assess if he knew. there was a humble. you know that oakley thing and that and then you had him in the.

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 at the sri 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 dorm i knew it was i have to assume it was or use a roof and. i missed them on. the what has it of the sort up in the mine nick i had created. them i would widen new news for you here a new model has a lot of new. like. going to most of the list most there's a story. who

. be here and i mean the. no and then into kind of incident should pull up sort of the live this is absolutely within the mindy a bit of. who . muzza non-home model 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 shoulder. 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. though they're all imprisoned . 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 travellers had to geneva to take part in demonstrations. was that they are still sitting in the songs of the syrian revolution. let. alone. like my eyes 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. yeah gave it. a. yank i. thought that was. all. in the law follow the fall of the south. of italy. 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 islamist groups. will come on tell us a little now does. that tell you. i'm sure. we so let's also. 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 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 u.n. to act on the overwhelming evidence of the syrian regime's crimes. we're talking about the security services retirement state security retirement military security with our air force intelligence within the chain of command official forces this is silly this is the clearest case that i've ever seen and

this is abundant evidence that we've got more so much more that maybe. it's embarrassing to get away at it for to quit ever since we got no court to thank you but there is one route to justice and grap is pursuing it hundreds of syrian families have identified their loved ones from the see saw 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 yeah as much as it is helping right but the case trying to identify members of the regime who has slipped into europe. he very much wants to be a public witness and that record it's good to great rescue search like after you've

done all this to us to us to to me what more can you really do i remember how women who struggled to bring children came to speak to me in another conflict zone and then later that day proceeded by security forces. who threatened that and said just go ahead and kill us just kill us and then we can tell your story. and so there is that point that witnesses reach richard makes it hard for any student discount the truth to come out. and other minorities in the. mornin know him is that in under him and in kenya and you know most of. these start feeling the norm theming know me at the well i left and outside. but you know how i came in and said what i said for all i mean

you could. hear him can take his so sad that man you're. hearing is a. missile at those who were. who know that and also the. murder of her thirteen young he. 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 one who was the only. image of i am being measured and multiply. an

e.m.t. i meant new look great how come the suit said look line listed in the in this is a concept here normally i mean you could move go on. president assad still denies any wrongdoing the photo when confronted with the seas are photographs like this was his response oh very hyper through. their very fiber that they're not edited in photoshop it's all just propaganda just taking you with they want to do when i proceed in government in every war you can have any individual crime it happening over the world 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 niamh 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 mean in the presidential part of what it is

because. when asked about any other allegations aside refused to comment you cannot look in on the who. for what he community and even if you can see from honest work on a hundred one. you know that's a sitting on the dock at nurnberg concentration camp or stuff and we don't expect compassion so that's what we have come up processes or account of based upon probably evidence that they themselves don't want to hear and then jack. 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 day number number or

a known 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 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 you're their god given rights you're going to be tortured and murdered. stephen rather than 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 a justice for those circles that since.

the court case may bring justice for the dead the urgent need is to free those still inside when you those who are detained to be free and able are still getting lost in the underground. we all notice we have evidence we have to feel that way doing nothing about the. village and the side of. us in this. little minute oceana and villages so there are clues in the official for them but there's a limit to how could all happen without sort of like what they sell the guy you have to deal before that bush out of this at the moment this will fit in oh we tell all and i should. i lost a lot the lady. when did i get stuck at. the.

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