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Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Eyes gouged out, electrocuted, strangled: Sickening dossier of 55,000 torture pics from Syria

A military police photographer has smuggled out of Syria evidence of the torture and killing of 11,000 detainees, according to a report by three former war crimes prosecutors.

The shocking images show emaciated corpses with strangulation marks, cuts, bruising and signs of electrocution – evidence of extreme torture, claim investigators. Some victims had no eyes.

The 55,000 photos will ratchet up the pressure on President Bashar Al Assad who the US and its Western allies – including the UK – say has committed war crimes against his own people. Assad denies the claims, insisting he is fighting terrorists. 

The 31-page report - released by The Guardian and CNN - was commissioned by Carter-Ruck solicitors in London on behalf of Qatar, a supporter of the Syrian uprising. Continue...but warning *Very Graphic Content*


Shocking: This picture is one of 55,000 taken by a Syrian military police defector showing emaciated corpses which investigators say are evidence of extreme torture by Assad's regime. Photographs: The Report
Shocking: This picture is one of 55,000 taken by a Syrian military police defector showing emaciated corpses which investigators say are evidence of extreme torture by Assad's regime.
Leverage: The report is being made available to the United Nations, governments and human rights groups just as peace talks are due to begin in Switzerland tomorrow to try to end the three-year conflict
Leverage: The report is being made available to the United Nations, governments and human rights groups just as peace talks are due to begin in Switzerland tomorrow to try to end the 3-year conflict

The dossier is being made available to the United Nations, governments and human rights groups just as peace talks are due to begin in Switzerland tomorrow to try to end the three-year conflict. The defector’s evidence records deaths of those in custody from March 2011 until August 2013. The photos were smuggled out along with files detailing the victims on memory sticks.
Three lawyers, all former prosecutors at the criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, examined the evidence and said they found the defector, who goes by the name of Caesar, credible.
Graphic: The defector's evidence, which records deaths of those in custody from March 2011 until August 2013, were smuggled out along with files detailing the victims on memory sticks
According to the report, he said his job was to take pictures of killed detainees, though he did not claim to have witnessed executions or torture.

Dossier of evidence: The photos will ratchet up the pressure on President Bashar Al Assad who the US and its Western allies - including the UK - say has committed war crimes against his own people
Dossier of evidence: The photos will ratchet up the pressure on President Bashar Al Assad who the US and its Western allies - including the UK - say has committed war crimes against his own people

Allegations: The photographs allowed a death certificate to be produced without requiring families to view bodies, and also confirmed that execution orders had been carried out, the report claimed

Allegations: The photographs allowed a death certificate to be produced without requiring families to view bodies, and also confirmed that execution orders had been carried out, the report claimed

‘There could be as many as 50 bodies a day to photograph which require 15 to 30 minutes of work per corpse,’ he told an inquiry team.

The photographs allowed a death certificate to be produced without requiring families to view bodies, and also confirmed that execution orders had been carried out, he claimed. 


Families of the dead were told cause of death was either a heart attack or breathing problems.
The inquiry team said it was satisfied there was ‘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 agents of the Syrian government’. 

Horrific: The inquiry team said it was satisfied there was 'clear evidence, capable of being believed by a tribunal of fact in a court of law, of systematic torture and killing of persons detained by the Syrian government'
Horrific: The inquiry team said it was satisfied there was 'clear evidence, capable of being believed by a tribunal of fact in a court of law, of systematic torture and killing of persons detained by the Syrian government'

A picture in the Syria 'torture' reportA picture which former war crimes prosecutors claims is evidence of torture by the Syrian regime
The evidence would ‘support findings of crimes against humanity and could also support findings of war crimes’.
Caesar's path to defection began in September 2011, around seven months after the conflict broke out, when he was contacted by a relative who had fled the country.
The man - known as 'Caesar's contact' - was working for 'international human rights groups', according to the report.

Caesar began sending him thousands of images, but soon became concerned for his safety, so the Syrian opposition arranged for him and his family to be smuggled out of the country.
Their location has not been revealed, with the lawyers only saying they conducted their investigation in the Middle East.

It is also not clear how the Qatari regime came to be involved in the publication of the report.
Qatar has carved an influential role in Syria by being quick to help the rebels and, later, by helping set up the Coalition a year ago with the aim of creating a credible alternative to Assad.

Injuries a man's anklesA body covered in scars
Defector: Caesar began sending him thousands of images, but soon became concerned for his safety, so the Syrian opposition arranged for him and his family to be smuggled out of the country
Evidence of strangulation: A picture which appears to show a ligature mark on a corpse's neck
Evidence of strangulation: A picture which appears to show a ligature mark on a corpse's neck

Qatar and Saudi Arabia are close allies in many respects. As Sunni Muslims, they share an interest in thwarting Shi'ite, non-Arab Iran and its Arab allies - Shi'ites in Iraq and Lebanon and Assad's Syrian Alawites.
Last year, however, Qatar found itself under pressure from Saudi Arabia and from the United States over the way the war was going, and notably over the rising influence on the frontlines of Islamists hostile to the West and to its allies in the Middle East - like the Saudi royal house.

An expansion of the Coalition to 120 seats diluted Qatari control and handed leadership to the Saudi-backed Jarba. On the ground, however, Qatar is still a force, through groups like al-Tawhid, part of a new Islamic Front that controls large areas and coordinates with the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
A Gulf source with knowledge of Qatari policy said the new emir, in power since June, wanted a lower profile than his father who had strongly backed the Arab revolts. 

The new emir was also more open to Western requests to stop supporting militants, though Qatar still believed that arming rebels was needed to force Assad to compromise, however, the source said.
The report's authors are Sir Desmond de Silva, former chief prosecutor of the special court for Sierra Leone, Sir Geoffrey Nice, the former lead prosecutor of former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic, and Professor David Crane, who indicted President Charles Taylor of Liberia at the Sierra Leone court.
Tension: An inquiry team said the images were 'clear evidence... of systematic torture and killing of detained persons by the agents of the Syrian government'. President Assad, pictured, denies the claims
The Syrian regime has also funded and co-operated with al-Qaeda in a complex double game - even as the terrorists fight Damascus, it was claimed last night.
Western intelligence agencies, anti-rebels and al-Qaeda defectors claim two al-Qaeda affiliates operating in Syria have both been financed by selling oil and gas to and through the regime from wells under their control.

Rebels and defectors said the regime also deliberately released militant prisoners to strengthen jihadist ranks at the expense of moderate rebel forces. 

The aim was to persuade the West that the uprising was sponsored by Islamist militants including al-Qaeda as a way of stopping Western support for it, the intelligence report claims.
Doubt remains over whether Assad will attend tomorrow's Geneva II conference in the Swiss resort of Montreux which is aimed at negotiating his exit from power.

But in an interview released yesterday, Assad said there was a 'significant' chance he will seek a new term.
He also ruled out any power-sharing deal with the opposition which he dismissed as having been 'created' by foreign backers.

And he called for the peace talks to focus on what he termed his 'war against terrorism'.
Meanwhile, Russia's foreign minister says that the U.N. decision to rescind the invitation to Iran to join the peace talks was a mistake but not a catastrophe. 

Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's decision to withdraw his last-minute offer to Iran to attend the conference would have a negative impact on the United Nations image.

Culled from Daily Mail UK

70 comments:

AnnMarie said...

OMG. syria is such a dead zone right now, thank God i'm not there

Alloy Chikezie said...

Jesus! How can people be so wicked?


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Alloy Chikezie said...

Dog will eat that Mr bashar al assad, God will punish him


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Apple said...

That their President is a BEAST!!!

TangoTangoAlpha said...

Horrible. But Linda similar attrocities happens in police stations across the length and breath of Nigeria everyday.

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LL said...

Blood of Jesus! There is only one word for this act and it is "wickedness". God please have mercy on us.

Anonymous said...

Islam and blood shed, God please have mercy upon Syria, safe the people like you safe the Isreal from Pharaoh

BONARIO NNAGS said...

Cruel treatments meted out on humans by their kind.
Still don't know why countries like China,Russia and Iran choose to play politics with an important issue like this.

~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA3310

Eya Ayambem said...

Thanks for the warning. Can't look at graphic images.

Anonymous said...

All is fair in love and war! But I don't see how this is! This is a gross undermining of the fundamental human right to live! This is just too bad and for a President to cover it up! Man, that is something!! And US is giving us grief for anti-gay right? What about this? Hilary Obiorah

Rudeeladiva said...

Saw dis on aljazeera today! Its just so sickening! Humans av no respect for fellow humans anymore.

Fuck your opinion said...

Humans re now more brutal than the devil.

jannygurl said...

Things they happen. Choi
Na wa ooooooo. Baba God na ur hand we dey ooooo

♥ ȊƦȋƺȟ ƘƦȋϻ ♥ said...

God hv mercy (JESUS)

miss teddybear said...

Chai chineke some people are wicked
Miss teddybear

Unknown said...

linda are u sure bout this, kinda scary

Unknown said...

Is this how the whole world gonna look and see this devil killing his own people because "they don't have petroleum"?

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awheezeee said...

gross and realy saD THAT A HUMAN BEING SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE THIS BY A FELLOW HUMAN BEING. MAY GOD FORGIVE THIS PEOPLE AND I HOPE JUSTICE CATCHES UP WITH THEM IF NOT KARMA..#LOBATAN

confessor said...

Hmmmmmm short of words. May God help diz people who are power drunk @ d expense of its citzen!

Anonymous said...

Inhuman,may Allah forgive dem oo

Anonymous said...

Chaai,,,,dis president is a monster,,,

jaypei said...

NA wa o

Unknown said...

Omg!!!human beings bn treated like non living things....gosh!!!God pls judge the people who did this....

Mich said...

No way this body of evidence would have come out if not for the brave deed of the military defector that has been code-named "Caesar".
Its evident that Assad would go any length to hold onto power in Syria,not only has his regime perpetrated crimes against humanity,it has also implored the use of chemical weapons as seen in the evidences that surfaced last year.
The bigger problem however is the rebel fighters who seem to be divided amongst themselves and have also been accused of doing worse to civilians whom they captured because they were accused of being loyal to President Assad.
Funny how Syria is the only country whose leader has not been toppled since the Arab Spring started years ago.

Unknown said...

So sad.

Anonymous said...

If d guy in suit is also an evidence of torture! *grabs bag off 2 syrian! Wen d west controls d media, evrythng seems ryt wen its nt!

Anonymous said...

This is sickening. Like father,like son. These people do not have respect for human life at all.# so sad, shaking my head

Anonymous said...

And he claims to be a medical doctor with a foreign degree. This is war against humanity.

Anonymous said...

Linda sometime u summarise these write up, nt jst copy nd paste.

Anonymous said...

I don't know why Western media always use the phrase "against its own people" people who share boarders don't often view their neighbours as their fellow brothers and sisters. If one looks closely to analyse the histories, kinship and current realities of various groups, one realises that nationhood is a farce. I would much rather they focus on our collective humanity. Rather than saying "against its own people" they should say "against humanity" period. How one human being can do this to another is our collective shame.

Anonymous said...

Terminator President

Unknown said...

God have mercy.

Igor said...

I have the feeling that these pictures were doctored (I wish I could be prooved wrong)Truth be told,Assad has the support of Christians and other muslim minorities in Syria.The Islamists wanting to overthrow him engage in similar atrocities,and they also fight each other for supremacy.

Yy said...

Eya whr hv u been.i hv "milxed" u

Anonymous said...

let them also show us how detainees in Guantanamo Bay look like so I can analyse.

Cute G said...

Humans nd d devil are competing in terms of wickedness*shrugs*

Unknown said...

If u call this wicked remember voilent men stay up all the night for people like us to sleep

Unknown said...

God have mercy. So mny tins God ll judge

Unknown said...

WICKEDNESS FROM THE PIT OF HELL

Unknown said...

God hve mercy,so mny tins dt God ll judge

OMG!WOMAN said...

This is bringing deep sadness to my heary, RIP to everyone that died trying to make it through the pain.

Mademoiselle said...

It's things like this that makes one wish the world should just end... wickedness on earth is at its extreme... Everybody is beginning to live in fear of death... ve tired

sha said...

Che

@MEETD®EALEVANS™ said...

There re report dat d senator shot in Cross river faked it. Linda u published a news but failed 2 punlished d climax of it. I av no reason 2 dought u an ACH faithful. Back 2 d issue @ hand. I'll comment wen I av smtin 2 say, for nw am out

Anonymous said...

Happy for you. Just pray to those who are there

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Naija Movies Nollywood said...

Hmm, syria shaa. When will this war stop in that country?

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Bonita Bislam said...

Nigeria still get hope! Bizarre hapenings in syria,Lord have mercy!

Anonymous said...

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ONE HUNDRED KAY said...

Terifying shit goin on there

Amarachukwu said...

Horrible pics gosh.

Unknown said...

Horrible. .. crying

Unknown said...

Horrible. .. crying

ST. KIZITO BOUTIQUE IG: @stkizitoboutique said...

May God save us all

Anonymous said...

Horrifying. We need to fight sub humans so that humans can survive in this world cos those who did these are not humans and they belong to this planet....
OctoberBeauty

dhobiz said...

If only people understand that one can sleep and never wake up maybe things would be a bit diff

AGB said...

i'M not in Syria,but knowing how these foolish western governments operate, I won't be surprised to find out all this is propaganda again as they always give free to the gullible majority of today's world. I know for certain tho, that there's quite a reasonable population of Syria that loves Bashar al-Assad & want him to continue to be president as opposed to the jjnk of lies the media spew.

Anonymous said...

Eya, where have you been biko and how is your blog doing?

Anonymous said...

Western Propaganda .. Why would Assad want foto documentation of torture in the 21st century.. Believe this and you would believe anything .. Nigerians are too gullible to be exposed to such foolish propaganda set up and shot in a CIA foto studio

Anonymous said...

First comment I'm putting on here and I'm not even going to further on this. People are so gullible thats how Iraq got invaded for invisible WMD, next was The Honourable Gaddadfi (Who openly at an African Conference live condemned his fellow muslim countries for letting Iraq be invaded, with secretly because he was making a new legal tender, "actual GOLD CURRENCY" for Africa to use in trade and the dollar would plummet....
It may not make sense, so short, you can call it a snippet. Do your research

Chris Brizzy said...

Terrible...World powers should do something to stop this shits...

Unknown said...

O.M.D!!! Anonymous 4:43PM I think u should also ask God 2 av mercy on u and save u...ur english is enough "blood shed"

Unknown said...

O.M.D!!! Anonymous 4:43PM I think u should also ask God 2 av mercy on u and save u...ur english is enough "blood shed"

whizzev said...

kant even finish reading the headline

Anonymous said...

This is Bizarre... gosh! why do this to fellow human... am scared of life right now...the world is coming to an end....really... Nigeria sef get boko haram...

Anonymous said...

Mary help...such a wicked country

Walata said...

I can't even view cos it's an eyesore omg dis Syrian govt nawah oh una dey kill innocent ppl just like dat it's not good

otevee said...

Blood of God...am so speechless...may God help us all..may their souls rest in peace

Anonymous said...

he (ASAD) will die like Saddam Hussein

ebonyz... said...

How can a human being be this heartless? Everybody get him day sha cos when God starts to take action, dem go know what's up.

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