Their effects can result in death, maiming, and life-long injuries. Weapons are designed to kill people and break things. The horror of the situation was overwhelming, but it was vital to log each piece of information, noting what weapon was used, and how, in order to identify if and how crimes had potentially occurred. Some weapons, such as incendiary and cluster munitions, have distinctive visual signatures. Fire rained down from above as heavy shelling forced the civilian population underground and into basements, where yellow-green chlorine gas dropped by helicopters suffocated victims in darkness. In 2018, as regime troops crushed the rebel-held city of Douma in Syria, the videos emerging from the ground were apocalyptic in nature. The guide will be released in full this September at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference. Special thanks to Dearbhla Minogue of the Global Legal Action Network for her invaluable advice. Image: Courtesy of Ed Kashi, VIIĮditor’s Note: This chapter contains graphic details and is an excerpt from GIJN’s Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes. Global Investigative Journalism Network -Ī Kurdish guerrilla inspects an unexploded chemical bomb left over from the 1988 Iraqi Army poison gas attack on Halabja that killed as many as 5,000 civilians. Global Shining Light Award – Українською.Global Investigative Journalism Network.
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