In the early hours of the 21st August 2013, the Syrian regime crossed perhaps the biggest red line in the course of the war in Syria - and dropped chemical weapons on Al-Ghouta, in the suburbs of Damascus. We look at that night, and the efforts of activists, documenters and lawyers to hold the perpetrators accountable.

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The Syria Trials is a 75 Podcast production. This episode is hosted by Fritz Streiff, and produced by Sasha Edye-Lindner, with editorial support from Mais Katt. Translation was by Remi Alanini and the voiceover artist was Alaa Hassan. It was mixed by Tobias Withers.

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Useful links:

https://www.vdc-sy.info/index.php/en/about 

https://www.justiceinitiative.org/litigation/french-criminal-investigation-of-chemical-weapons-attacks-in-syria 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52-9vVdPmHY&ab_channel=DWNews 

https://scm.bz/en/missing-and-killed-scm-members/razan-zaitouneh 

https://trialinternational.org/latest-post/islam-alloush/

https://chemicalweapons.gppi.net/podcast/