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Gathering evidence of Syria war crimes in ‘The Assad Files’

Clip: 4/11/2016 | 6m 12s

Five years of civil war in Syria have killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions.

Five years of brutal civil war in Syria have killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions more. Now, a new journalistic project aims to document President Bashar al-Assad’s principal role in the systematic campaign of detention, torture and murder that has left his nation in the throes of chaos. Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Ben Taub of The New Yorker to discuss “The Assad Files.”

04/11/2016 | Rating NR

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