alexa koenig is the center's executive director. professor at berkeley school of law, and she joins me now. myanmar what was happening on the ground coming social media combing through bubbled up to ghe surface dragged into the backs of trucks many bodies were returned so they maybe told for example watching these horrific videos, it often seemed like the killings were random. but were they, in fact, not random at all, and instead designed to terrorize? >> i think it really spends on what you mean by random. a lot of times when you see these indiscriminate killings, the very randomness of that can be an act of psychological war fair designed to create a sense of widespread vulnerability among populations, a widespread sense of fear. i think it certainly raises the possibility that you or your loved one could be killed at anytime in broad daylight with potential impunity and, so, you know, i think there's a lot of attention brought to physical acts of war fair, the droppings of bombs, mass killings, et cetera, but less so about the w

alexa koenig is the center's executive director.also a professor at berkeley school of law, and she joins me now. welcome to the newshour. what did you investigate and what did you find? prof. koenig: we partnered with the associated press to trying get a sense of what was happening on the ground. we were beginning to hear a number of stories from sources and social media there was widespread violence. we all know about the protests taking place. one of the things we began doing here at the lab is combing social media for videos and photographs that could help tell that story. we began scraping that information. ended up with about 2000 to 3000 tweets, and combing through them to get a sense of any patterns of behavior we might see. what quickly bubbled up to the surface was the fact we were seeing civilians or what looked to be civilians being shot i what appeared to be military in broad daylight come off and dragged into the backs of trucks. then we were hearing from some sources on the ground and through additional reporting that