UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed a French judge Catherine Marchi-Uhel to lead an international panel tasked with gathering evidence of war crimes in Syria's six-year war.<br/><br/>Uhel, who has served as an international judge in Kosovo, Cambodia and at the war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia, was named to head the Geneva-based panel yesterday. <br/><br/>She currently works as the ombudsperson for a Security Council committee that deals with the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda. The UN General Assembly in December set up the international panel to help collect evidence to be used in future cases of war crimes prosecution.<br/><br/>More than 320,000 people have been killed in Syria where a UN Commission of Inquiry has documented cases of torture, summary killings and other atrocities by all sides in the conflict.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed a French judge Catherine Marchi-Uhel to lead an international panel tasked with gathering evidence of war crimes in Syria's six-year war. <br/><br/>Uhel, who has served as an international judge in Kosovo, Cambodia and at the war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia, was named to head the Geneva-based panel yesterday. She currently works as the ombudsperson for a Security Council committee that deals with the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda. <br/><br/>The UN General Assembly in December set up the international panel to help collect evidence to be used in future cases of war crimes prosecution.<br/>'<br/>More than 320,000 people have been killed in Syria where a UN Commission of Inquiry has documented cases of torture, summary killings and other atrocities by all sides in the conflict.'<br/>'''