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Hunting Syria’s War Criminals
Syrian refugees are playing a crucial role in tracking down alleged war criminals.
A network of Syrian refugees in Europe is playing a crucial role in tracking down alleged war criminals that left the country together with other migrants and are now living among them.
With little hope for an international tribunal and the Assad government firmly in control in Syria, prosecutions in countries across Europe have become a way of seeking justice for the victims of human rights abuses during Syria’s civil war.
As a landmark trial in Germany against a former high-ranking official in the Syrian security apparatus draws to a close, we hear from the Syrian refugee community about their new sense of hope for justice.
