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Syria burning thousands in makeshift crematorium to hide mass killings, US says
By Yaron Steinbuch
May 15, 2017 | 1:18pm | Updated
April 18, 2017 satellite image of what the State Department described as a prison complex in Syria.
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The Trump administration accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime Monday of killing thousands of prisoners and burning their corpses in a crematorium near the capital of Damascus, according to reports.
The US also assailed Iran and Russia for supporting the Syrian government and accused them of being complicit in the brutal dictator’s other atrocities, ABC News reported.
The regime slaughtered as many as 50 people a day at the Saydnaya prison complex between 2011 and 2015, US officials said. In 2013, Syria modified a building at the site into a crematorium, officials said.
“Although the regime’s atrocities are well documented, we believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Saydnaya prison,” acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Stuart Jones said, ABC reported.
“We are appalled by the atrocities that have been carried out by the Syrian regime, and these atrocities have been carried out seemingly with the unconditional support of Russia and Iran,” he added.
As many as 13,000 people have been executed at the notorious prison, according to an Amnesty International report in February.
Jones urged Russia to hold the Assad regime accountable for sinking “to a new level of depravity” by hanging the prisoners and incinerating them during Syria’s six-year-old civil war.
Jones noted how Russia has backed the Syrian strongman even after other horrific crimes, including chemical weapons attacks, forced starvation and indiscriminate airstrikes, ABC reported.
“Russia has either aided in or passively looked away as the regime has conducted an airstrike against a UN convoy, destroyed east Aleppo, and used chemical weapons, including sarin against civilians in Idlib province on April 4,” he said.
He also called on Russia and Iran to press Assad’s government to establish a cease-fire with Syrian rebel groups and begin negotiations on a political settlement.
But he said he was not optimistic about a Russia-brokered deal to set up “de-escalation zones” inside Syria, Reuters reported.
The deal was reached this month with support from Iran and Turkey during ceasefire talks in the Kazakh capital of Astana.
“In light of the failures of the past ceasefire agreements, we have reason to be skeptical,” Jones said. “The (Assad) regime must stop all attacks on civilian and opposition forces. And Russia must bear responsibility to ensure regime compliance.”
Jones did not say what measures the US might take if Russia does not change its stance.
“Russia must now with great urgency exercise its influence over the Syrian regime to guarantee that horrific violations stop now,” he said.
During a briefing Monday, Jones showed aerial images of what he said was the crematorium.
The satellite photographs, taken over several years, do not definitely prove the building is a crematorium — but they show construction consistent with such use, including a discharge stack and a firewall, he said.
The US has not presented the evidence to the Russian government yet, Jones said, but he added that last week’s talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Washington gave the administration hope that the Kremlin will comply.
News about the crematorium emerged as President Trump is weighing options in Syria after he ordered a cruise missile strike last month on a government air base that the US said had been used to launch a poison gas attack on civilians.
The civil war has killed as many as 400,000 people since 2011 and has contributed to Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II. It also enabled ISIS to emerge as a global terrorism threat.
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The regime slaughtered as many as 50 people a day at the Saydnaya prison complex between 2011 and 2015, US officials said. In 2013, Syria modified a building at the site into a crematorium, officials said.______
Although the regime’s atrocities are well documented, we believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Saydnaya prison,” acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Stuart Jones said, ABC reported.
“We are appalled by the atrocities that have been carried out by the Syrian regime, and these atrocities have been carried out seemingly with the unconditional support of Russia and Iran,” he added.
As many as 13,000 people have been executed at the notorious prison, according to an Amnesty International report in February.
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