#135 - Human Rights and The Syrian Conflict: A Dialogue with Jomana Qaddour and Gissou Nia
Converging Dialogues
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Syria - Is There a Right to Redress in the Middle East?
There's been a taboo around going after russian state actors responsibility in the syria conflict, then we would necessarily have seen similar actions taken in ukraine. So not only is redress critical for syrian victims and survivors, is actually critical for the globe because what it means about a sort of culture o impunity that's incredibly corrosive. It gives the green light to dictators to kill civilians indiscriminately with no consequences. And so justice is not only a sort of backward looking thing, it's very much a forward looking thing, um. Amit kind of got a, got into a situation where, you know, jurisdictional issues complicated it, where there wasn't necessarily a ready forum to
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