A Syrian military police photographer has supplied “clear evidence” showing the systematic torture and killing of about 11,000 detainees in circumstances that evoked Nazi death camps.<br /><br />Over 55,000 postmortem images provided by the photographer, who fled Syria after passing the pictures to Assad’s opponents, show emaciated and mutilated corpses.<br /><br />Bearing signs of torture, some of the corpses had no eyes. Others showed signs of strangulation or electrocution.<br /><br />Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is supported by Iran and Russia, could face a charge of crimes against humanity as a result of this evidence.<br /><br />“There is clear evidence, capable of being believed by a tribunal of fact in a court of law, of systematic torture and killing of detained persons by the Syrian government,” three prosecutors said in the report.<br /><br />A video purportedly showing pro-Assad security personnel beating a detainee in the Kafr Nabl, in north-west Syria was uploaded to an account that features hundreds of revolution-related videos. They are mainly from the Idlib region and specifically from the Jebel Zawiya district, where Kafr Nabl is situated. <br /><br />There are several versions of the video online. The version used in this euronews report is the earliest. The video was uploaded on July 3 to a YouTube account registered to the US.<br /><br />Human Rights Watch (HRW) published video detailing ‘torture centres’ run by the Syrian regime. <br /><br />That video, featuring testimony from victims and army defectors with commentary from HRW researcher Ole Solvang, is available here.
