Claims of torture and summary executions by all sides in the Syrian Civil War are so common as to border on cliche at this point, but a new report takes the allegations to a new level, with a Syrian military police defector smuggling a large cache of images to the Qatari government, which has produced a report on the “most compelling” evidence and demanding war crimes prosecution.
The defector was a photographer for the military police, and apparently spent all day every day photographing the corpses of tortured detainees for bureaucratic purposes. The photographic evidence purports to show 11,000 such deaths in “industrial-scale” killing operations.
The Qatari-hired team was convinced the evidence merited war crimes charges, though Qatar had been demanding such charges for years to begin with, and has been bankrolling the rebellion with a goal of ousting Assad, so they are far from unbiased on the issue.
Human rights groups like Human Rights Watch have said they were not given a chance to authenticate any of the putative “smoking gun” evidence, though pro-rebel governments seem to be universally endorsing the narrative without asking such questions.
The timing of the release seems intended to influence the Geneva 2 peace talks, which begin later this week. The initial goal was to “end the fighting” in Syria, though US and other officials now suggest the whole point of the talks is regime change.
And the news is from Qatari government, not an independent photographer or even English daily mirror or the Swedish aftonbladet?
After that chemical theater played by those whom are supported by the very same Qatari government, this is what is called “excellent” politicking by one of the tyrants in Middle East.
In that rapport is mentioned that they reviewed half of the photographic evidence, that's 5500, while each corpse has several photo's. The number of 835 cases ended up being given and only one third of those were strongly suggesting induced trauma.
It's unclear to me where the idea of 11000 deaths would be from or any reference to some industrial or WW2 scale. Right now we're talking about a few hundred very suspect cases and in worst case evidence for around a 1000 if we'd extrapolate. Horrible still but the number is just not 10,000.
In that rapport is mentioned that they reviewed half of the photographic evidence, that's 5500, while each corpse has several photo's. The number of 835 cases ended up being given and only one third of those were strongly suggesting induced trauma.
It's unclear to me where the idea of 11000 deaths would be from or any reference to some industrial or WW2 scale. Right now we're talking about a few hundred very suspect cases and in worst case evidence for around a 1000 if we'd extrapolate. Horrible still but the number is just not 10,000.
In that rapport is mentioned that they reviewed half of the photographic evidence, that's 5500, while each corpse has several photo's. The number of 835 cases ended up being given and only one third of those were strongly suggesting induced trauma.
It's unclear to me where the idea of 11000 deaths would be from or any reference to some industrial or WW2 scale. Right now we're talking about a few hundred very suspect cases and in worst case evidence for around a 1000 if we'd extrapolate. Horrible still but the number is just not 10,000.
These guys don't get tired of trying to set up Assad and get the West to become outraged at some fictional story.
Look, the lie machine has to go on strong, or we if the truth has even a remote chance of being heard, we will end up being responsible for some of the worst terrorist attrocities in recent history. Never mind the absolute rulers in the Middle East, they do not have thin skins. But in our world, should it come out just how many civilians were killed by our allies, the "rebels", of which there is not a single group that has not committed attrocities on grand scale — it would be very unpleasant. In fact, we have openly supported these groups, and these groups have been openly killing civilians, and then recorded all their deeds electronically, and were and still are posting on Tube. So, what is there to expect, but the stubborn factory of lies that it is SOMEBODY ELSE that is worse. And that SOMEBODY else has started it. And that SOMEBODY else has been at fault for keeping it going. Everything and everybody but us. We got away with it in Rwanda, and in Balkans — from the attrocities in Croatia to Kosovo — so we will keep on producing movies for our public to "explain" reality. Why not, it works.
They're a little slow on the uptake
You might want to check out Craig Murray's post on this today: http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/01/sy…
Sounds like Sir Desmond De Silva has now gone private
What about those youtubes video showing rebels cutting off heads and eating human organs, that's more compelling than any photos.
Doesn't fit the West's narrative that Assad is the evil one, so it must be ignored/rejected.
Another bag of horsesh!t for sale from the same characters. Don't these guys ever get a clue?
Can you believe the timing of this story? It has "false flag" written all over it.
Brings to mind the "Katyn massacre" when 22,000 Polish officers murdered and buried in the Katyn Forest. Their deaths blamed on the Germans with the full complicity of the US and UK. Fool me Once..
Brings to mind the "Katyn massacre" when 22,000 Polish officers murdered and buried in the Katyn Forest. Their deaths blamed on the Germans with the full complicity of the US and UK. Fool me Once..