“Syrian government officials could face war crimes charges in the light of a huge cache of evidence smuggled out of the country showing the “systematic killing” of about 11,000 detainees, according to three eminent international lawyers. The three, former prosecutors at the criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, examined thousands of Syrian government photographs and files recording deaths in the custody of regime security forces from March 2011 to last August…The UN and independent human rights groups have documented abuses by both Bashar al-Assad’s government and rebels, but experts say this evidence is more detailed and on a far larger scale than anything else that has yet emerged from the 34-month crisis…”.* Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (host of TYT University and Common Room) break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/20/evidence-industrial-scale-killing-syria-war-crimes
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