Ministry of Defence written question – answered at on 13 January 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using military surveillance capabilities to record potential war crimes in Aleppo.
The UK is committed to ensuring accountability in Syria. We are supporting international inquiries, including by the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry, and we are funding projects to train and equip Syrians to collect evidence of human rights violations and abuses. Where surveillance activity over Iraq and Syria is focused on protecting our national security and supporting Coalition airstrikes against Daesh targets, we would act on any evidence related to potential war crimes that might be observed during the RAF's intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
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