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GENEVA (Reuters) – International investigators are moving ever closer to finding justice for victims of atrocities in Syria’s eight-year war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, the head of a U.N. war crimes body said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-warcrimes/u-n-investigators-hot-on-trail-of-syrian-war-criminals-idUKKCN1QP1AD?edition-redirect=uk

More and more European countries, including Germany, France, Sweden and Austria, are prosecuting people for war crimes in Syria. One of the tools at their disposal is the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism created in December 2016 by the United Nations General Assembly

https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/other/40107-catherine-marchi-uhel-a-strong-signal-to-those-committing-crimes-in-syria.html

A la rencontre d’une femme étonnante ce soir. Elle dirige la cellule de l’Onu chargée des crimes de guerre en Syrie. Et elle l’assure, “c’est long, mais ça portera ses fruits”

https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/un-jour-dans-le-monde/un-jour-dans-le-monde-18-octobre-2018

https://www.france24.com/en/20180419-interview-catherine-marchi-uhel-syria-civil-war-un-iiim-serious-crimes-prosecution-justice

Catherine Marchi-Uhel, the Head of the IIIM speaks about the unique nature of the IIIM’s mandate and the main features of the vision the IIIM developed to bridge the gap between human rights fact-finding and criminal justice processes.

From: https://humanrights.stanford.edu/videos/accountability-most-serious-crimes-committed-syria