A new year-long investigation carried out by the Syrian British Consortium’s (SBC) investigations team has found that the National Union of Syrian Students (NUSS), affiliated with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, is guilty of war crimes including the targeting of pro-democracy activists at the University of Damascus between 2011 and 2013. The investigation, which is based on interviews with witnesses, former students, professors and NUSS members, claims that the union served as the Syrian regime’s arm on campus and worked directly with the wider state security apparatus. Witnesses and …