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Source: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/bashar-al-assads-war-crimes-exposed
The Assad Files
(New Yorker) Ben Taub - The Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) is an independent investigative body founded in 2012 in response to the Syrian war. In the past four years, people working for the organization's regime-crimes unit have smuggled more than 600,000 government documents out of Syria, many of them from top-secret intelligence facilities. The commission's work recently culminated in a 400-page legal brief that links the systematic torture and murder of tens of thousands of Syrians to a written policy approved by President Bashar al-Assad, coordinated among his security-intelligence agencies, and implemented by regime operatives who reported the successes of their campaign to their superiors in Damascus.