ICC Mali

A digital tool developed by the International Criminal Court and MacArthur grantee SITU Research provided key visual evidence of the destruction of historic monuments in the Court’s trial against Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, who was charged with the intentional destruction of nine mausoleums and mosques in Mali in 2012. Al-Mahdi pleaded guilty to war crimes in the first trial in which the Court has heard a case about the demolition of cultural heritage. The digital tool facilitates the organization, analysis, and presentation of evidence documenting the destruction of historic monuments and buildings, including geospatial information, historic satellite imagery, photographs, open source videos, and other forms of documentation.