Eliot Engel: “I will be offering an amendment that will call for Bashar al-Assad and…”

On the recordMarch 6, 2012

I will be offering an amendment that will call for Bashar al-Assad and senior regime officials to be referred to an international tribunal.

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Engel plans to propose accountability for Assad's regime through international law.

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