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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/12/smuggled-syrian-documents-indict-assad-investigators
Evidence to Indict Assad for War Crimes Smuggled Out of Syria
(Guardian-UK) Julian Borger - A three-year operation to smuggle official documents out of Syria has produced enough evidence to indict President Bashar al-Assad and 24 senior members of his regime for war crimes, according to the Western-funded Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA). The prosecution cases against the Syrian leaders focus on their role in the suppression of the protests that triggered the conflict in 2011. Tens of thousands of suspected dissidents were detained, and many of them were tortured and killed in the Syrian prison system. The CIJA's findings are based primarily on captured documentary evidence. It has accumulated half a million pages of orders and reports sent up and down the chain of command ordering mass arrests and detentions. The CIJA is also conducting a separate investigation into war crimes committed by extremist opposition groups.