Could social media revolutionise war crimes trials ?

A project that aims to investigate war crimes has been launched by a group of investigative journalists and lawyers in the UK. But what could it mean for the worlds legal ecosystem, and what is it likely to change the way we document the illegal invasions of Yemen and other areas of the Middle East? The BBC s David Robson. () How is the project being developed by Bellingcat and the Global Legal Action Network (Glan) is looking into how they are trying to capture and document war criminals - and how it can be documented when it comes to the human rights system, the BBC has learned from their latest findings, including the use of open-source investigations into historical abuse and crime against humanity, in which experts are using the internet to find out what happened in World War Two? Why is this increasingly accepted and acclaimed? It is one of its largest efforts to document these cases? Is it really going to be the most sophisticated evidence of war crimes that have been created by the Russian military and civilians in recent years? And how can it be used to monitor the global justice system? What does this mean to make it harder?

Source: computerweekly.com
Published on 2023-06-26