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The Citizen's Investigation into War Crimes in Libya (CIWCL) is an informal collective of researchers who first came together in 2011 to critically examine crimes and alleged crimes of the civil war and intervention in Libya. Since mid-2012 the CIWCL has switched focus, with no name change, to the events in Syria, and may expand to cover other areas, some day. With thorough work and often brilliant results, the CIWCL has in two wars now quietly challenged the accepted views promoted by the corporate-owned mainstream media, human rights groups, world governments and bodies of the United Nations, Arab League etc. 

Since it creates balance if nothing else, the CIWCL unapologetically embraces its members' skeptical instincts, postulates rebel crimes and methods of concealment, and compares these to the available evidence. In most cases, those first instincts make it through to report form, gaining only in clarity and supporting clues. 

To the extent the truth matters enough to search after, the CIWCL's work is important, and should be considered. 

See also "About Us" with a listing of members and signatories
In case the truth matters, the CIWCL is there.
Updates from CIWCL co-founder and site manager Adam Larson

May 15: New Report on the Houla Massacre in Syria

The CIWCL is excited to announce the release of its third major report:

Official Truth, Real Truth, and Impunity for the Syrian Houla Massacre of May 2012

Seven Essays By: Marinella Correggia, Alfredo Embid, Ronda Hauben, Adam Larson


It can be viewed and downloaded on this page. See also the promotional/summary article at Global Research. 
December 22: Another letter to Human Rights Watch
December 12: A letter to Human Rights Watch
November 3: Syria Site is Alive!

Within two days of the last update, wiki manager CE had it back up at a new home. Please take note. 
See our Syria page for a little of what's there, some select links, and some things that aren't there. 
October 31: Syria Site is Dead

It's been over four days since the CIWCL-affiliated research wiki A Closer Look on Syria, and all of wikinet, went down, possibly for good. It's happened before for up to a day, but this is too much. The site will be re-located soon, with announcements here and elsewhere. I apologize for the inconvenience as our valuable work just disappears from the Internet. Someone else might owe us all a bigger apology, but we don't know just who. 
September 25: Letter to the OHCHR

I've just sent a long letter, about Syrian massacres study, to the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights/UNHRC. It's quite impressive and can be read here: A plea for Reality

Also, I've expanded the letters page, aside from the mammoth new addition, with some older dispatches from March and July I dug up.  
September 9: The CIWCL Investigates the Syrian "Civil War"

We've been interested in what's been happening in Syria from the beginning, and a few of the CIWCL's members have been doing some serious investigating for months now. But the cofounders (Petri and I) have only recently agreed to semi-formalize this as a mission of the CIWCL. Despite the name mismatch, it seems smarter than dividing efforts with a new group. There really is much bleed-over and commonality between the two, and people interested in one tend to be interested in the other. 

Therefore, keep an eye on the expanding Syria page here. 
August 21/22: Second Report Released
The CIWCL's second report A Violation of Medical Neutrality: The Neglected Massacre at Abu Salim Trauma Hospital (55 pages) is released! See the press release or download here. 

Learn how as many as 164 people (including a few women and children) were killed in or dumped at Abu Salim Trauma hospital, left emptied of staff, ransacked, and blood-spattered as anti-government forces enjoyed their victoryin Tripoli last August. Follow the evidence for dozens of patients, mostly Black "African mercenary" types and otherwise government loyalists, being shot or even beheaded right in their beds and left to rot. Witness a few alleged doctors, nurses, and patients carefully absolve the marauding rebels of any wrongdoing, and blame the scene on fatal neglect, and/or "Gaddafi snipers." Watch the world's champions of human rights and "medical neutrality" remain totally silent on this fairly obvious rebel war crime.  
July 5: Syria Article Published 
The German-run English language Syria News.cc has published my new article "'Fight for Us' and other things Ali said" on July 4. The witness account analysis that proved so helpful unraveling the Libyan Khamis Brigade shed massacre proves its value again demolishing the credibility of the "star witness" to Syria's Houla massacre. 
June 27-29: New signatories, Syria research
Martin Iqbal (empirestrikesblack.com) has signed on as a supporter among a few others, and Lockerbie researcher Eddie McDaid is now credited as an active member (again see About Us). And on another track, CIWCL co-founder Adam is working with others to launch a Syrian massacres research wiki. Co-founder Petri has joined, and others are invited.
June 20: New signatories
Traffic is still very slow, but the CIWCL has taken on two new signatories. One of these is Dr. Maximilian C. Forte, author of the widely-read Counterpunch article The Top Ten Myths in the War Against Libya. See About Us.
June 19: CIWCL on Syria
See the new Syria page and "Towards A Citizen's Investigation into War Crimes in Syria."
A call to investigative action
June 13/16: First Major Report and CIWCL Site Publicized: "Holocaust" Denied
Please see our first major report, A Question Mark Over Yarmouk, regarding the most famous and among the largest alleged "Gaddafi regime" atrocities of the whole war. Read the compelling press release here, or the report itself here. 
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