Ace international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has set her sights on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
In an interview with the UK's Channel 4 News, Clooney expressed her desire to work on any prosecution against Assad.
Failure of UN, @theresa_may's role in migration crisis and prosecuting President Assad.@Channel4News 7pm
"If there is a prosecution of President Assad, I would be delighted to work on it," she said. "I think the UN has concluded that the Syrian government has committed crimes against humanity and war crimes."
On Monday night, an aid convoy delivering medical goods into rebel-held areas in Syria was attacked in an airstrike — the Syrian regime knew exactly what the convoy was and where it was located, officials told BuzzFeed News.
Assad isn't the only actor in the Syrian conflict that Clooney wants put on trial. She's also pushing to have ISIS leaders prosecuted for committing war crimes.
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Clooney recently took on the case of Nadia Murad, a Yazidi girl who escaped from slavery under ISIS, in an attempt to convict ISIS of genocide. “I wish I could say I was proud to be here,” she said in a speech at the UN on Friday as Murad was named a UN goodwill ambassador. “But I’m not. I’m ashamed as a human being that we ignore their cries for help.”
"You can't kill an idea [through military force]," she told NBC News when asked how she responded to those who say ISIS should be bombed, not put on trial.
