The Assad Files
Ben Taub on the documents, captured by the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, that tie the Syrian regime to mass torture and killings.
Investigators have smuggled more than 600,000 government documents out of Syria—each page scanned, bar-coded, and stored underground. A dehumidifier hums in the evidence room; just outside, a small box dispenses rat poison. The bureaucracy of proving atrocity.