A Syrian man devoted his life to collecting digital evidence of crimes committed by the Syrian regime from 2011 onwards
Tamer Turkmani stares at his laptop screen for hours every day. A Syrian national, Turkmani has been collecting photographic and video evidence of people who have been killed in the course of the Syrian civil war.
"I worked on several other portraits that were displayed in European countries such as Austria, Romania, Canada and Switzerland," Tamer says. At least 50,000 photos of Syrian victims were taken from Tamer Turkmani's digital archive and displayed in front of the White House in 2015. Away from the war, Turkmani began collecting two million YouTube videos of demonstrations, street battles, and speeches of various politicians.
Downloading such a large number of videos needed more and more hard drives. That's where his friends and family members are proving helpful. He's over forty thousand gigabytes of data stored on dozens of hard drives. He has also maintained a database of 260,000 news articles from about 190 news websites. The articles are about the major events of the first wave of Arab Spring protests that hit the Assad regime in 2011. They also chronicle isolated incidents of torture, extrajudicial killings and other human rights abuse.
Turkmani has another goal to achieve — which is to provide all the necessary evidence that would lead to the prosecution of Bashar al Assad and members of his armed forces who have committed war crimes in the past 11 years of the Syrian civil war.
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