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    10 hours ago

    This is a comprehensive, detailed look at desecrations in Afrin by . A depressing but necessary catalogue of destruction.

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    8 hours ago

    A surveillance camera on the detention center captured the moment of the strike on the weapons depot. Shrapnel flies across the parking lot towards the detention center. As smoke and debris spills out, people try to flee but are stopped by guards, witnesses tell us.

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    9 hours ago

    Why is this weapons depot key? It was bombed at 23:28 on July 2 — 11 minutes *before* the detention center. Here's what the visuals tell us. Left: 🛰📷 shows impact hole Right: 📷 shows sunlight coming through hole on destroyed Toyota technical with ZPU

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    13 hours ago

    And that's not all. Some say that the pro-GNA Dhaman Brigade forced them to take up arms.. essentially conscripting migrants and refugees into a pro-GNA militia. Here are some photos of Tajoura detainees in military fatigue.

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    14 hours ago

    And it are not just technicals. This migrant — who is detained at Tajoura — took a selfie with a T-55A and shared it with . (Thanks for IDing this Soviet-made main battle tank.)

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    14 hours ago

    Migrants have told us they were forced to work in this weapons depot — cleaning and maintaining weapons for the pro-GNA Dhaman Brigade. We can corroborate their claims with, for example, this photo, which can be geolocated to the same depot.

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    14 hours ago

    Thanks to reporting of and , we obtained several 📷s taken by migrants showing military equipment. We geolocated them ~100m from the migrant detention center, in a building dubbed the “weapons depot”. Here's one of those photos, showing a technical.

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    14 hours ago

    Not only is the Tajoura migrant detention center (for non-Libyan migrants and refufgees) located in between Libyan civil war frontlines.. it's actually located *inside* a military compound of the Dhaman Brigade, a pro-GNA militia.

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    15 hours ago

    Located on the eastern outskirts of Tripoli, the Tajoura migrant detention center sheltered nearly 600 (mostly African) migrants and refugees. It is ran by the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM), an agency of the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA).

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    16 hours ago

    My colleague has summarized the main points of our investigation here: . Details like the weapons and militia involved didn't make it into the video, but are interesting nonetheless. I'll discuss those here.

    How could an airstrike hit a migrant detention center in Libya? On July 2, an attack killed 53 people. An visual investigation shows they were being held near a weapons depot — a prime target in the country’s civil war.
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    16 hours ago

    Our latest visual investigation shows that the +50 migrants killed by a July 2 airstrike in were being detained next to a weapons depot — a prime target. Before the attack, the E.U. ignored calls to move the migrants. Watch the investigation here:

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  12. 8 hours ago

    Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World will be screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 6th and 15th, ticket details here

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    13 hours ago

    Really looking forward to the first episode of the MH17 podcast -- I've listened to an early draft of it, and it's really, really good. Should be out next week!

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  14. 24 hours ago

    The Bellingcat Yemen Project team has been busily investigating more air strikes in Yemen, and aims to have another batch of reports out in the coming weeks.

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  15. 24 hours ago

    Bellingcat's and the 's latest investigation on air strikes in Yemen examines the May 16th 2019 air strike on the Al Raqas residential area in Sana’a, killing 6 (including 4 children) and injuring dozens more

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    24 hours ago

    New joint investigation w : 6 civilians killed as a result of airstrikes targeting al Raqas residential area in Sana’a. …

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    Jul 10

    We return with an encore showing of TRUTH IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD this Friday at 4:30pm following popular demand at our last few showings! Book now to guarantee a place at this insightful look into how they sparked a citizen journalist movement:

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    Jul 10

    As expected, the documentary from 2015 containing the Buk use confession was deleted. Fortunately we saved it and it's still available on 's YT channel

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  19. Jul 9

    For the folks who are generous enough to sign up on Patreon, feel free to send in any comments on if you'd like to hear from any of our researchers on a recent article they've published and we'll see if they have time to record a (Belling)chat. Thanks all!

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    We aren't putting any sort of paywall on our site anything like that in the future, but we just wanted to provide a way for our readers to send in donations and get a little something extra for their generosity. Before, we could just take PayPal donations.

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