“When we found copies of orders and directives that had come down from Damascus, from the top, I knew we´ve got enough for some prosecutor to indict the top guys" Bill Wiley on CIJA evidence
“The Syrian state and its Russian allies have always rejected claims that the regime is guilty of systematic war crimes...they hope whatever happened in the last ten years will be forgotten - but the paperwork in CIJA´s archive is going to make forgetting a lot harder”
“The one thing to fear is not one, two, ten, one thousand victims, but it´s 900,000 to a million documents produced by your own machinery – that´s the thing to fear” – @NermaJelacic on the significance of CIJA #Syria war crimes archive
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In Dec 2020, CIJA Executive Director Bill Wiley received an email from Prof Paul McKeigue of @EdinburghUni, a member of the “Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and the Media” – the same group that had targeted the White Helmets, Mayday and its founder, James Le Mesurier.
The email indicated that the Working Group was preparing a report on CIJA, but “it was obvious that this group had no interest in the facts” CIJA Director @NermaJelacic tells @chloehadj