Whole picture of torture in Syria 'slaughter houses' posted 10 day ago by Zaman Alwasl

Horrific facts revealed behind the photo which posted by Zaman Alwasl on Jan 12 for Syrian detainees had been died of hunger in security branches.

More than 55,000 photos and documents for naked, tortured and slender bodies have been brought to public by the exclusive of Turkish Anadolu News Agency.

A former member of the military service for the Syrian government for thirteen years was set to photograph and document the dead bodies of military soldiers brought from their places of detention to a military hospital during the civil war in the country, according to AA.

Syrian ‘Tahrir Souri’ group claimed 10 days ago that it had obtained a rare photo from a security agent, who defected from state security branch 215 during the Syrian upraising, showing number of naked and slender bodies for Syrian detainees, seemed died of starvation.

The bodies brought to the hospital, fully consisted of detained-Syrian opposition members, which showed signs of starvation, brutal beatings, strangulation and other forms of torture and killing. It became routine for the military service to take photographs of the bodies and faces of people in detention after designating those with a 'numbering system', who had been brought to the hospital after being tortured and killed.

These images of bodies and faces of the dead with handwritten codes on each, have been accepted as 'documents' of a systematic torture and killing of people under the 'execution-orders' within the Syrian army. The military police, having photographed 55,000 photos within two years, who was fed up with the killing policies by torture, has built confidential contact with Syrian oppositions.

The military police regularly recorded and sent the copies of these photographs secretly to a trusted contact using a 'flash drive' (memory stick).

With attempts of the Syrian opposition, an inquiry team of international lawyers has been set up of experts of forensic medicine and forensic imaging in vast experience in the prosecution of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other crimes contrary to international law.

The team included the former lead prosecutor of ex-President Milosevic of Yugoslavia before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and prosecutors and lawyers of the special Court for Sierra Leone.

To confirm whether these images were real or not, the images were uploaded directly to a secure server at a laboratory in the United Kingdom for assessment. It was confirmed to the inquiry team that all of these images were not digitally altered.

The team has examined 26,000 of 55,000 photographs.

Upon the material, it was revealed there was clear evidence of systematic torture and killing of the people in photographs, who were tortured while their limbs were tied and strangled with ligatures and cable ties. 

Another attracting point of the inquiry is that emaciation was used as a torture method.

The team estimated that there were some fifty-five thousand (55,000) photographic images of some eleven thousand (11,000) detained persons who had been tortured and killed by agents of the current Syrian regime since the beginning of the uprising against the Assad regime in March 2011.

The members of the team also heard evidence from the contact of the military soldier. The team concluded that all material were acceptable 'clear evidence', capable of being believed by a tribunal of fact in a court of law.

Such 'clear evidence' would support findings of 'crimes against humanity' and also support findings of 'war crimes' against the current Syrian regime, the team has decided and put those into report form. The report was signed by all commission members.

While listening to a Syrian military policeman who carried out one of the most intriguing works in the world, renown war crimes prosecutors and forensics experts have decided to codename him "Caesar" for his safety.

Together with his colleagues, “Caesar” documented with 55,000 photographs the crimes against humanity committed by the regime during the civil war in the country. Being a witness who will be mentioned most often in the future, "Caesar" explained to Inquiry Team all the details he saw. In the report, the inquiry team did not mention any information excluding the codename and profession of the military policeman.

“Caesar" had worked at military police unit in the Syrian army for 13 years. Originally his job had involved the taking of photographs related to ordinary criminal matters and sending them to “the judiciary”. In short, he was a scenes of crime investigator.

“Caesar” told the team that since the civil war against the current regime began, his job changed from taking photographs of crime scenes and accidents to “taking pictures of killed detainees”. “Caesar” together with his others in his section photographed and documented bodies of detainees who had been killed for two years.