The Syrian migrants’ legal consciousness of the principles of Universal Jurisdiction in Germany in particular and the West in general is the recognition of the possibility of prosecuting members of an oppressive regime outside the borders of the nation-states and/or beyond the official national judicial systems. But in a country like Syria where accountability has always been absent and impunity has been an essential principle of ruling, this consciousness should not begin from May 2020 when the prosecution of two members of the Syrian regime started in the German city of Koblenz. Instead, it is a story connected to the long years of struggle that preceded and succeeded the 2011 uprisings in Syria. This paper sheds light on the life histories of former Syrian prisoners who currently live in Germany and who share their memories not only as part of but also as critiques of the legal and institutional limits of the Koblenz trials. Put differently, I show how acts dissidence, street protests, loss of beloved ones, traumatic experiences, massacres, and shattered bodies and souls have contributed to the consciousness developed by the Syrian migrants in Germany. Via chapters written with blood and fire for, at least, the last 50 years of the Ba’th regime, I argue for a vernacular, grounded theoretical approach that should temporally and spatially expand the court sessions in Koblenz. I stress that the Syrians’ legal consciousness as the institutionalization of human rights consciousness should refer to earlier phases of activism, a failed but enduring revolution, and a lasting pursuit of justice and human dignity.