Documentation gaps in human rights and transitional justice violations in Syria and ways to address them

There has been widespread praise and appreciation for the remarkable documentation efforts of countless activists and human rights defenders, NGOs and media inside and outside Syria on crimes committed in the early years of the conflict. The assumption was that documenting and publicising mass atrocities would put pressure on the warring parties and the international community to halt the ongoing violations and prevent massacres, such as those committed in the 1980s, from ever happening again.