By Al Hussein Al Shishakli
(Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)-
Zaman al-Wasl newspaper on Monday to publish new photos of mass torture by
Syrian intelligence services that illustrate apparent actions of serious
international crimes, according to human rights advocates.
The photos show lifeless bodies with signs of starvation, brutal
beatings, strangulation and other forms of torture and killing.
Some of the
photographs will take back the reader to the torture memos of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
after the American invasion in 2003 when the U.S. soldiers used to take
photos with tormented inmates. Here the Syrian soldiers are doing the same.
The new photos are
linked to war crime report made last year by a team of internationally
recognized war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts.
In mid 2013, a team of
war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts, had analyzed thousands of digital
photos taken and provided by a Syrian defector codenamed "Caesar,"
who, along with his family, is now living outside Syria in an undisclosed
location, according to CNN.
The team members shared their findings in a joint exclusive with CNN's "Amanpour" and The Guardian newspaper on January 20 2014.
Sir Desmond de Silva,
the former chief prosecutor of Sierra Leone special court, in interview with
CNN, likened the images to those of Holocaust survivors and Nazi death camps
after World War II."
Syria is not a member
of the International Criminal Court. The only way the court could prosecute
someone from Syria would be through a referral from the United Nations Security
Council.
More than 200,000
people have been killed in Syria since the revolt against Bashar al-Assad began in
March 2011, the United Nations says.
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