UN investigative body hopes to send team to Syria to secure evidence of war crimes

The head of a United Nations investigative body has reached out to Syria's new authorities through their diplomatic missions, expressing his willingness to engage with them and to travel to Syria to secure evidence of war crimes, he said at a press briefing on Tuesday.
"Our first priority would be to go and try and scope the extent of the issue, see exactly what is available in terms of access and potential evidence, and then see how we could best assist in preserving that," Robert Petit, head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM), told reporters in Geneva.
When asked about mass graves, Petit said his team has a significant reason to believe there are a number of mass graves. He added that while some evidence had been lost in Syria in recent weeks, it was too early to know the scale of the situation.