Breaking: The US Accuses the Assad Regime of Mass Murder, Using Crematoriums to Hide Atrocities
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Stuart Jones, Released Overhead Photographs and Provided Statements on the Assad Regime’s Use of Murder to Quell Dissent, and Crematoriums to Hide Atrocities
Stuart Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, revealed that the US has discovered crematoriums built into Syria’s Sednaya prison complex. Citing NGO and official intelligence reports, as well as providing overhead photographs, Jones stated that as many as 50 prisoners are being killed in the complex per day, with thousands already dead and the Assad regime using crematoriums to hide the crimes.
Jones also stated that the Assad regime has been carrying out these and various other crimes “seemingly with the unconditional support from Russia and Iran,” the Assad regime’s primary allies in Syria’s civil war.
Initial reports on the Assad regime’s crimes at the Sednaya prison complex came from Amnesty International in a report titled “Human Slaughterhouse”, initially published in 2016 and then circulated come February 2017; it is stated in the report that at least 13,000 POWs and other dissidents have been murdered by the Assad regime at the site. It is likely that they are hanged after being told they are being transferred.
Jones has ultimately accused Assad of mass murder, and has called on Russia to reign in the dictator given their close connection to he and his regime.
