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some viewers may find the following content disturbing. and in the end new death i do a full amount of who i usually 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 girl justice. i want to the yugoslav a tribe you know or want to try to be you know 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 and 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 kind 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. arrests and disappearances part of a systematic government policy. we're trying to lay the foundations for 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 as 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. largely convicted on their own documentary evidence. countries it's the wife the germans who have documented mad they documented things that even implicate so we can 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 were taken to the streets. yes we must the mother is sure there is a. bit of a shift the father of us here. in ma i. must own 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. talk. since two phone logs. but if that's the hit they are. all the. while. while. the mother and the girl in the past fall. off guard that none of. the one of maggie nor.

maher on her rocker 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. of second. some. kind of the i welcomed when you see any. kind of cheered for how to be anyway. although mario opposed the demonstrations at first she was won over by her sons of enthusiasm. the news just was funny. you don't want him out was sure what he said and he found a half hour how he can annoy. the hustlers and what they needed to have a consultant.

because of the money side and child abuse in the country. yeah i mean you know when that william in the anyhow degree. insisted. 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 ha just looked like it was losing control it issued an order to arrest people on an unprecedented scale. from. 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 that 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. 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. for the. most of the live. you're much. south. of you are the. kind of just

that. you'll get a bill had a lot. of. what they do but i'll have a laugh. and. what the twenty five double. 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 a special smart. i thought he was funny and he was very nice. romani 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 into i phones pointing at us of irrationals we were all shocked is a little central theme. i think is one hundred nine medical. men . i mean i usually eat the national committees or we'll highlight. the air force intelligence branch admits a military airport in damascus or 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 he would 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. 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 ask 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 that a certain mas 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 ohm from us and was in a cafe with his nephews after they had helped supply baby formula to

a besieged area. close by the missile. on those are all of the law let's watch this and ups. for focus on the blast now born in baghdad. had while. i was so i said to her in a way. that i. didn't know it's me i thought. the most need. for me i love i thought well there's only i love. another one. film so. i'm not allowed. to or i may. not.

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by march so what i did janet who know how up i learned from a look at that death of hospital. and have do you fear people who did that. to your lovely. well as i learn from them as you will one of them but i can.

if the higher. then you're. in a 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 twenty people have been psychologically abused twenty people died in detention of unnatural causes. that 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. zero zero zero zero zero. zero. zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero let's look at it. for the other what it. clear that.

we just had a second but to stand. so would. you have that where this. has had a glass of gin but i post here for the jolly. so i thought i liked and that's the way i like that idea. of the total recall called oh i wish that i had all that i left for the sphere. that this was what i said i should. feel. hospital six or one news less than a kilometer from president of science palace. detainees were also taken to the tishri military hospital where mohammad was working for the regime.

people with the counties up bolger ha. live up the woods or made up the woods hole in the shaheed. cellar. for how what. was that a meal he had more know your. a lot and a lot of money and up in a all the fear of how your all the for you had a short up for kelly a man a few took up the amount of fuel up the cabin don't let em out and you can either i don't want to if you had the mechanic for your mill a young. feature in the last few months that's for sure but the more. i learned that a part of the sort of german involvement a civil fashion. hospitals are implicated in the regime's own records. for example war crimes investigators have found this memo from detectives in one

province to there is appear ears 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 oh he 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. criticism 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. bittorrent 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 everything all the names of them to use we were already in 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 detention facility two one five. on the. assets article that any of that there are found in the nie i would i mean not

inflict on the neverland. and in the mean death and with old normality from what i usually it was who cannot. admit all of them not all of the on here and there 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 and inside the corners. so nobody will suspect it's three

bleached to each other the first one who will. we will. get out of my name was called the two. months or got the names out. when i look at those should be says written of blood blood of people who are still lived some of them i knew i got the news there are loads. i have their blood with me i have the outraging. 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 him disappeared still searching for and. she constantly requested information about him from the military police. to make any only knew she had. to side out of my kit that in seattle. the assistant gave my arm this not. enough. thinking me just said let me were sitting. just says soldiers so in iraq i'm so high even in the month and the country i am a little mit and. the note says that 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 mari ramos finally given a death certificate stating that her son had simply dying 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 finale condemn beside him a woman with a heinous newest but. knew who the toll free. him in the battle but. you know me in particular. had. this in the muscle and i kind of had to assess if he knew. whether or. not that oakley thing and that and then she hadn't any.

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 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 seas are photographs of 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 two of them it was him it was our use riff and. i missed them on. the white house it was just the sort of in common big news in that i had to tease acutely aware of them i knew wide and new news further you hear a new man who has allowed to. go on most of the most just most famous just.

who. planted a beer here and i mean the ms martin. and then into connie i'm certain should pull up to put the leave this is us a little wood in the mindy a battle of. who . mada 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. 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. though they're all imprisoned . miles and 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 a demonstration. was that they're still singing 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 have been disappeared by the syrian regime they're determined to get their loved ones free. yeah. yeah um ticket. it is a. bit i. feel. in the all the fog. of in 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 groups. will come on tell us a little notice. that janet. i'm sure. we saw that sells out. 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 it is for justice. 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 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 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 going away at it particularly it's embarrassing we've got no court to thank 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 ok as much as it is helping run with 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's good to great rescue certified 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 him speak to me in another comfort 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 as well and so there is that point that witnesses reach which makes it hard for any student discount the truth coming. out of them nor less than. mourn in a hammock that none of us and i didn't know kean and lee know was a. nice thought feel the norm theming know me at the well i left and outside.

but you know how came you know said ross and for all of me you could hardly. hear him kind his so sad that night and. hear the music of the sheriff who went. missing at those who seem. to know that and. much of what that outstanding young thinking. 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 they know who was the only. image of i am being has been known to play. i

mean i meant new look great how come the senator said look law you listen to the in this is a concert here and normally i'm you should move on go on with 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 edited in foreclosure hope it's all just propaganda i just thinking it was they want to deny the syrian government in every war you can have any individual crime it's 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 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 part of what it was because. when i asked about any other

allegations aside refused to comment. on the. forward he community and in thinking she found honest work on hundred would. not say sitting on the docket burka but their concentration camps are still and we don't expect compassion so that's why we have come up processes work out of their support are probably evidence 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 dana run on or

a known international human rights lawyer has taken on the case. for 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 your god given rights you're going to be tortured. murdered. stephen wright and a 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 sorts of those victims.

while a 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 people are still getting lost a lot of their guns we all of this we have evidence as well. why we're doing nothing about. let's let. sort of why would they sell when the guy you have to deal before that bush out of this at the moment could live issue for the oh we tell all and i should. alas it was the law dorothy. south. when they die that sucker here of all the luck that i do.

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