At no time in history has the perversion of the truth been so extreme. Once the NATO-led genocide on the people of Syria comes to an end, The Guardian and the entire British media establishment must be tried for crimes against humanity.
The systematic torture and killing of 11,000 detainees in Syria has
been compared to the holocaust by a Scottish scientist who
co-authored
a report claiming the Assad regime is guilty of war crimes.
Months of encirclement by the Syrian army has cut off the 18,000 people
in Damascus's Yarmouk refugee camp from supplies and
medical aid,
reducing them to subsisting on a diet of animal food, water with salt
and instant noodles and leaves.
At no time in history has the perversion of the truth been so extreme.
Once the NATO-led genocide on the people of Syria comes to an end, The
Guardian and the entire British
media establishment must be tried for crimes against humanity.
Senior war crimes prosecutors say photographs and documents provide
'clear evidence' of systematic killing of 11,000 detainees by
Ian Black, The Guardian, 21 January 2014 Read the Syria report in full
Syrian government officials could face war
crimes charges in the light
of a
huge cache of evidence smuggled out of the country showing the
"systematic killing" of about 11,000 detainees, according to three
eminent international lawyers.
The three, former prosecutors at the
criminal tribunals for the former
Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, examined thousands of Syrian government
photographs and files recording deaths in the custody of regime
security forces from March 2011 to last August.
Most of the victims were young men and many
corpses were emaciated,
bloodstained and bore signs of torture. Some had no eyes; others showed
signs of strangulation or electrocution.
The UN and independent human rights groups
have documented abuses by
both Bashar al-Assad's government and rebels, but experts say this
evidence is more detailed and on a far larger scale than anything else
that has yet emerged from the 34-month crisis.
The three lawyers interviewed the source, a
military policeman who worked
secretly with a Syrian opposition group and later defected and fled the
country. In three sessions in the last 10 days they found him credible
and truthful and his account "most compelling".
The authors are Sir Desmond de Silva
QC, former chief prosecutor of the special court for Sierra Leone, Sir
Geoffrey Nice QC, 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.
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