They maintain the report and the horrifying pictures, depicting twisted, mangled and emaciated bodies provided clear proof of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
One victim confirmed their veracity.
"We didn't see pictures. We saw real people like this in front of us," said Ala Al Cizawi, adding she had been beaten, tortured with electricity and hung from her arms for 12 hours at a time in detention centers last year.
Crane told AFP his organization, The Syrian Accountability Project, was drawing up full indictments that could quickly be implemented.
Washington's new ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Keith Harper, said the Caesar report -- funded by Qatar and named after the codename given to a defector who captured the images -- provided conclusive proof of atrocities.
"These photos are a smoking gun," he said after viewing some of the horrifying images of skeletal, bruised bodies, many with their eyes gauged out.
A Russian envoy meanwhile blasted the report, suggesting it had been doctored to place all blame for abuses on the regime of
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama....
| People have more urgent horrible things to worry about guys, like ISIL suddenly controlling an extensive and contiguous chunk of Iraq and Syria, and taking major cities like Mosul. As Debka points out (yes, pinch of salt, but that it's there to notice is worrisome, and the map is very worrisome indeed, at least to me): After occupying the oil town of Mosul in northern Iraq, Al Qaeda's ISIS (Islamist State of Iraq and the Levant) went on to seize more slices of Nineveh province. By Wednesday, June 11, they were in control of some 38,000 sq. km. or one-tenth of Iraqi territory -- the size of Portugal - and 3.5 million inhabitants, around ten percent of the country's national population. The Islamists also took over the main crossing from Iraq to Syria at Yaaroubiyeh. Debka also notes that Maliki's government is offering guns to the citizenry. |