Killing the Future: Targeting Schools by the Syrian Government

This video accompanies a more extensive written report available here: https://arcg.is/1Xe8Dv In this report, the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) presents never-before-seen government documents and analysis of open-source videos which show a policy of the Syrian government to target schools with reckless disregard for the lives of children that it knew or should have known were present. In addition to Syrian government intelligence documents, this report highlights four school attacks investigated by SJAC’s Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) team that shed light on the practice of targeting schools by the Syrian government. Although two of these attacks were previously reported by civil society and the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, SJAC’s report illustrates that these attacks were not isolated incidents. Rather, the systematic nature of the school attacks coupled with orders related to school attacks in Syrian government reports shows that these attacks were part of a policy to intentionally target these structures.

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