New revelations that certify the barbaric repression running zealously Syrian Army have turned to cloud the diplomatic efforts appointment this Wednesday in Switzerland are given to find uan diplomatic solution to the civil war that has lasted almost three years. A comprehensive legal report has accused the Damascus regime of " systematic torture and murder " to thousands of detainees in Syria. "What we have before us is a classic example of crimes against humanity. Assad has become a killing machine. Are murder on an industrial scale, "said David Crane, one of three lawyers who signed the report and the attorney who prosecuted President Charles Taylor of Liberia.
It is not the first time allegations are raised against the Syrian government since the outbreak in 2011 of the riots against the regime. This document is however, the most comprehensive documentary evidence produced to date on the alleged atrocities. The report was originally published by CNN and The Guardian.
The information comes mostly from a defector from the Syrian military police, nicknamed Caesar to protect his identity, and who photographed thousands of corpses. Images of bodies leave little doubt. There bony bodies, killed by apparent starvation. Necks also marked by some kind of rope indicating strangulation death and torsos with wounds which the researchers attribute to torture and beatings are. In total, researchers have had access to 24,000 images and other Syrian Caesar got out of the country on a memory stick. Every body is pictured four or five times, bringing to 11,000 the number of dead detainees, as calculated by the researchers.
The report was commissioned by the Government of Qatar, supported the rebellion against the Assad regime - three exfiscales the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Special International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. A total of 31 pages, which have been delivered to the UN, governments and human rights organizations. The fact that the work is financed by a country like Qatar, with a strong involvement in the conflict does not diminish any credibility to their authors. "We work completely independently and have not had any pressure. Qatar only asked us to authenticate the material, " explains Geoffrey Nice, another author, the former prosecutor of the Yugoslav president Slobodan case Milosevic. Sir Desmond de Silva, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone is the third member of the research team. A British expert on digital images certified the authenticity of the photographs.
Caesar, who spent 13 years in the military police, defected to a third country and met in January with investigators. They detailed the elaborate bureaucratic procedure that runs whenever the Army a detainee dies. Caesar was commissioned to photograph the bodies. For one, because it allowed them to military issued a death certificate without families access to the bodies. And secondly, photographed, because the images confirmed that execution orders had been met. After dying in the detention center, the bodies were taken to a military hospital. There, Caesar, with a doctor and a lawyer were beginning their work. The informant said there were days when photographed up to 50 bodies. The official causes of death were usually " heart attacks " or " breathing problems." The vast majority of the bodies are young men and appear malnourished.
Each detainee is adjudicated a reference number associated with the service responsible for the detention and death safety. At the hospital, another number was attributed to fake a death in the hospital. Once photographed, the bodies were buried in rural areas.
The researchers conclude that the alleged evidence presented could support charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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