[net-gold] COUNTRIES: SYRIA, UNITED STATES : ORGANIZATIONS: UNITED NATIONS: US And UN Express Horror at Syria Torture Report
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:36:08 -0500 (EST)
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COUNTRIES: SYRIA, UNITED STATES :
ORGANIZATIONS: UNITED NATIONS:
US And UN Express Horror at Syria Torture Report
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US And UN Express Horror at Syria Torture Report
21 January 2014 Last updated at 20:00 ET
BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25836550
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The US and UN have reacted with "horror" to allegations in a new report
that Syria has systematically tortured and executed about 11,000 detainees
since the start of the uprising.
The US said the reports underscored the need to remove the regime of
President Bashar al-Assad.
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'Extremely disturbing'
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The report, by three former war crimes prosecutors, is based on the
evidence of a defected military police photographer, referred to only as
Caesar, who along with others reportedly smuggled about 55,000 digital
images of some 11,000 dead detainees out of Syria.
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US state department spokeswoman Marie Harf said it "underscores that it
makes it even more important that we make progress [at Geneva II]. The
situation on the ground is so horrific that we need to get a political
transition in place, and we need to get the Assad regime out of power."
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She added: "Obviously we condemn these reports in the strongest possible
terms.
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"These most recent images are extremely disturbing; they are horrible to
look at and they illustrate apparent actions that would be serious
international crimes, and we have long said that those responsible for
these kinds of serious violations in Syria must be held to account."
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Earlier, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed similar sentiments,
telling the House of Commons: "I've seen a lot of this evidence, it is
compelling and horrific. And it is important that those who have
perpetrated these crimes are one day held to account."
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The photographer, "Caesar", said his job had been to take photographs of
corpses, both to allow a death certificate to be produced and to confirm
that execution orders had been carried out.
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"There could be as many as 50 bodies a day to photograph which require 15
to 30 minutes of work per corpse," he is quoted as saying.
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The photographs cover the period from the start of the uprising in March
2011 until August last year.
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All but one of the bodies shown are male. Investigators say most were
emaciated; many had been beaten or strangled. Some had no eyes, and some
showed signs of electrocution.
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