Turkish Anadolu Agency News has obtained new documents
showing evidence of war crimes against dissidents.
The New York Times newspaper said that Obama’s
administration first learned last November about a harrowing trove of
photographs that were said to document widespread torture and executions in
Syrian prisons when a State Department official viewed some of the images on a
laptop belonging to an antigovernment activist, a senior official said
Wednesday.
The United States did not act on the photos for the
past two months, officials said, because it did not have possession of the
digital files and could not establish their authenticity. Nevertheless, they
said, the administration believes the photos are genuine, basing that
assessment in part on the meticulous way in which the bodies in the photos were
numbered.
The photographs, some of which were released this week
on the eve of an international peace conference on Syria, have helped prompt
the administration to heighten its demand that President Bashar al-Assad
release political prisoners and allow Red Cross inspectors access to the
prisons, NYtimes said.
But it seems clear that the photos that appear to
document the torture and executions will not fundamentally alter American
policy, which is to push for a political settlement that will remove Assad
from power but to avoid direct military intervention in the conflict.
Photos: AA
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