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Monitor: 60,000 have died in Syrian government jails during war
In early 2014, a Syrian military-police photographer (code-name: Caesar) defected with photographic evidence of mass murder of prisoners by the Assad regime. Numbers inscribed on more than 11,000 bodies in 55,000 photographs said to emerge from the secret jails of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, suggest that torture, starvation and execution are widespread and even systematic ... each case logged with bureaucratic detail.
Syrian regime document trove shows evidence of 'industrial scale' killing of detainees
Sun May 22, 2016
Syrian prisoner tortured by the Assad regime (Photo: AFP)
A monitoring group has said that at least 60,000 people have died in Syrian government jails during the five-year conflict. Syrian government officials could not be reached for comment on the report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which cited sources in the security apparatus for the toll. The government has rejected similar reports in the past.
The Observatory's director, Rami Abdulrahman, said it had arrived at the number by adding up death tolls provided by sources in several Syrian jails and security agencies. He said more than 20,000 of them had died at Sednaya prison near Damascus. The Observatory said it had been able to verify the deaths of 14,456 people, 110 of them under the age of 18, since the start of the Syrian uprising in 2011.
U.N. investigators said in February that detainees held by the Syrian government were being killed on a massive scale.
In early 2014, a Syrian military-police photographer (code-name: Caesar) defected with photographic evidence of mass murder of prisoners by the Assad regime. Numbers inscribed on more than 11,000 bodies in 55,000 photographs said to emerge from the secret jails of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, suggest that torture, starvation and execution are widespread and even systematic ... each case logged with bureaucratic detail.
Syrian regime document trove shows evidence of 'industrial scale' killing of detainees