The Assad regime, backed by Putin’s Russia our new President’s BFF, is perpetrating one of the worst crimes against humanity in this new century. They are not only using chemical weapons (over President Obama red line and one of his worst foreign policy errors), throwing barrel bombs on hospitals, subjecting populations to famine even after agreements are signed, and a long, long list of other war and previous to war police state atrocities, now is coming clear that the regime is torturing and indiscriminately executing after torture anyone they slightly suspect is an opponent of the regime.
One of the dead camps were this massacre is practiced is the secret prison of Saydnaya were at least 13,000 people have been executed. Those are to be added to other at least 17,733 discovered previously. Amnesty international has a report (www.amnesty.org/...)
The research for this report took place between December 2015 and December 2016. Amnesty International interviewed 31 men who were detained at Saydnaya (also spelt Sednaya) between 2011 and 2015.
Of these, 20 were detained in the prison’s “red building”: five who were part of the Syrian military at the time of their arrest and 15 who were civilians. The remaining 11 were detained in the prison’s “white building”, including nine who were part of the Syrian military at the time of arrest and two who were civilians. As explained below, the majority of those detained in the red building of Saydnaya since 2011 are civilians, and the majority of those detained in the white building are soldiers or officers in the Syrian military.
Amnesty International also interviewed four prison officials or guards who previously worked at Saydnaya; three former judges, one of whom served in the Military Court in the al-Mezzeh neighbourhood of Damascus; three doctors who worked at Tishreen Military Hospital; four Syrian lawyers; 17 international and national experts on detention in Syria, such as investigators, analysts and monitors; and 22 family members of people who were or still are believed to be detained at Saydnaya.
The majority of these interviews took place in person in southern Turkey. The remaining interviews were conducted by telephone or through other remote means with interviewees still in Syria, or with individuals based in Lebanon, Jordan, European countries and the USA. In total, Amnesty International interviewed 84 people for this report. In many cases, two or more interviews were conducted with key witnesses to evaluate the consistency and veracity of the information they provided. In all but two cases, interviews with witnesses were conducted separately. Several interviewees shared their testimonies with Amnesty International at significant personal risk.
The report is not for the lighthearted. The place is a dungeon of horrors comparable to any reports I’ve read from Treblinka or the Khmer Rouge camps.
Witness accounts
A former judge who saw the hangings:
"They kept them [hanging] there for 10 to 15 minutes. Some didn't die because they are light. For the young ones, their weight wouldn't kill them. The officers' assistants would pull them down and break their necks."
'Hamid', a former military officer who was detained at Saydnaya:
"If you put your ears on the floor, you could hear the sound of a kind of gurgling. This would last around 10 minutes… We were sleeping on top of the sound of people choking to death. This was normal for me then."
Former detainee 'Sameer' describes alleged abuse:
"The beating was so intense. It was as if you had a nail, and you were trying again and again to beat it into a rock. It was impossible, but they just kept going. I was wishing they would just cut off my legs instead of beating them any more."
www.bbc.com/...
Meanwhile Assad, profession:Tyrant like daddy, is talking to journalist about he doesn’t care about the international Human Rights Tribunal or the UN. Also that he thinks that Donald Trump foreign policy is promising.
Assad was quoted by SANA as telling a group of Belgian reporters that Trump's position was promising. "I believe this is promising but we have to wait and it's too early to expect anything practical," he said. Assad was also quoted as saying that U.S-Russian cooperation in stepping up the fight against the militants would have positive repercussions.
Trump has previously indicated he might cut U.S. support for Syrian rebels that have been fighting Assad, and that he could cooperate with Russia in the fight against Islamic State in Syria.
I don’t understand how there are people on the left or the right still defending Assad or why someone like Tulsi Gabbard felt like it was a good idea to meet with him.
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