Washington – The Trump administration on Monday accused the Syrian government of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners and burning the bodies in a large crematorium outside the capital.
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The State Department said it believed that about 50 detainees a day are being hanged at Saydnaya military prison, about 45 minutes from Damascus. Many of the bodies, it said, are then being burned in the crematorium.
“We believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Saydnaya prison,” said Stuart Jones, the top U.S. diplomatic for the Middle East.
The department released commercial satellite photographs showing what it said is a building in the prison complex that has been modified to support the crematorium. The photographs taken over the course of several years, beginning in 2013, do not definitely prove the building is a crematorium, but they show construction consistent with such use. One photograph taken in January 2015 shows one area of the building’s roof cleared of snow due to melt.
In presenting the photographs, Jones said Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government “has sunk to a new level of depravity” with the support of Russia and Iran and called on both countries to use its influence with Syria to establish a credible ceasefire and begin political talks.
Where is the UN outcry over this? The UN silence is deafening. HYPOCRITES!
I question the wisdom of making a large fuss about this. Yes Assad is an evil murderous bad dictator. However, is the alternative better? Is ISIL better? The unfortunate sad gloomy look is these are our only two choices. At least under Assad during peaceful times pre 2011, the syrian people by enlarge lived in peace with some not all but some freedoms. And Assad is a man we can control. If he misbehaves Israel sends a few bombs his way and he quiets down. Is ISIL a better choice. Unless the idea is just to pressure Assad to slow down on the killings we should use caution on this very sad issue.
Just like the Holocaust, the world watches and does nothing. I saw the documentary which was shown during the NBA playoff, it’s disgusting what this murderer is doing to his own people. True, the Arabs are our enemies today but they are still people, with feeling, and children and they feel pain and suffer for no reason by the hands of this evil dictator. Why don’t we take him out like we did Bin Laden and Sadam?
Arabs killing Arabs, what should be the outcry we should send in American boys to stop Muslims from killing Muslims or Shiites killing Sunnis?
Asad forces and ISIS killing each other?
The rbs”o should give them both great hatzlachah!