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I'm Dorothy Wickenden. On today's Politics and More podcast, Ben Taub talks about the Commission for International

Justice and Accountability.

The commission is assembling at great risk to the people involved, a war crimes case

against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

For the last five years, Syria's president Bashar al-Assad has framed the revolution in his country as a conspiracy fueled entirely by foreign powers.

His security agencies have detained tens of thousands of people, killed hundreds of thousands, and displaced possibly half of the entire country, creating a refugee crisis

that has absolutely engulfed the European continent.

And while ISIS commits its atrocities in public, the Syrian regime is engaging in violence

and repression of its own people that is the stuff of nightmares.

This is, without a doubt, a tragic and seemingly hopeless situation,

but there are people out there who are not giving up.

Ben Taub has spent months reporting on a group of investigators

gathering evidence of the Assad regime's crimes,

should Assad or his henchmen ever go to trial?

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