President Bashar Al-Assad
More photographs showing the maimed bodies of alleged victims of ‘systematic killings’ in Syrian prisons have been released today. The second cache of photos paints an even clearer image of the horrendous conditions and gruesome torture in government-run jails in Syria. The images, some of the 55,000 leaked by a witness ‘tasked with recording deaths in custody’, were taken between 2011 and 2013.
The pictures were smuggled out of Syria by a military police photographer, who has been saving the files over two years, and handed to the opposition.When the first photographs were released earlier this week, they were described as 'clear evidence' of crimes against humanity by a team of war crimes prosecutors. They show emaciated corpses with strangulation marks, cuts, bruising and signs of electrocution – evidence of extreme torture, claim investigators. Some victims are shown to have had their eyes removed. The photographer served as a military police officer for 13 years, and was assigned the duty of documenting the dead bodies brought to the military hospitals controlled by the Syrian regime during the civil war.
How can people be so callous? How!
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