US says Syria built crematorium inside notorious prisonUS Assistant Secretary of State Stuart Jones said at a briefing in Washington on Monday that the United States has evidence that the Syrian regime has built a crematorium in the infamous Sednaya military prison complex, north of Damascus. Commercial satellite photographs released during the briefing show what is believed to be a crematorium used by President Bashar al-Assad’s government to dispose of the remains of bodies of prisoners and to cover up evidence of mass murder. In February, Amnesty International reported that between 2011 and 2015, the Syrian government had conducted mass executions in Sednaya, with groups of 20 to 50 people hanged each week. Tony Badran writes: As the revelations about Assad’s prison system demonstrate, “ending the war” does not address the machinery of death in the regime’s dungeons. The unspeakable horror of the Assad prison system is a longstanding tradition of the Assad family, dating back to Bashar’s father...But Bashar has managed to surpass his father. You will not find descriptions of crematoria to dispose of thousands of dead detainees in Syrian prison literature. That picture conjures another event in history. - Tablet
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