Paulo Pinheiro

Fourteen Years of Bearing Witness So Accountability is Possible

Paulo Pinheiro has chaired the UN Syria Commission of Inquiry since August 2011 — through Assad's sarin attacks, the siege of Aleppo, the fall of ISIS, and the collapse of the regime itself. His commission could not enter Syria and had no enforcement power. What it built, meticulously, over 14 years was a documented record that governments and courts can use long after the war ends.