Carnegie Mellon University
May 31, 2017

Analysis of Cellphone Videos

NPR story features partnership between CHRS and the Syria Justice and Accountability Center on Analysis of Cellphone Videos

NPR story features partnership between CHRS and the Syria Justice and Accountability Center on Analysis of Cellphone Videos

The war in Syria is a conflict of the social media age. Everyone — the rebels, the government, ordinary citizens, everyone — has a cellphone.

And that means almost no bad deed goes unrecorded by someone.

A Syrian-born human rights lawyer in Washington, D.C., is collecting those videos, hoping someday they will be used to build criminal cases against the perpetrators of the violence.

But he also faces a major problem: The volume of videos is staggering.

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