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the huge story coming out of Syria it turns out by Charles
all sides government I might have been doing a lot more torture then
previously recognizes not like we did know he's up to no good
but now we have some stunning new evidence is actually
55,000 digital images about
11,000 victims is turned in by guy who's
job was to actually take pictures these guys his military police he was a
photographer
in a it was interesting is their minds move all Germany because they were so
*** about recording everything horrible that they had done
their whole process in place and this for Tyra didn't witness torture you will
be brought in later
and take pictures what had been done because the people who have done it
in the different departments need to get credit for it and that guy one up
defecting
and telling us all about it and he told to three guys who've been working in
these kind of criminal investigations of international crimes for a long long
time
in a fine I'm incredibly incredible that's very important okay
so here's how the Guardian explains it most of the victims were young men
in many corpses were emaciated blood-stained
and bore signs of torture some had no eyes
others showed signs of strangulation or electrocution
now of course the source here is very important as it is not credible then we
don't really have anything
and look the government Qataris against the government of Syria
their finance a lot of this he got to be careful make sure that this guy is an
astute remember a lot a source in Iraq that turned out to be nonsense right
but according to the Guardian quote these
the esteemed members that have a look in a *** national criminal crime
could I'm sorry look at the net internet international war crimes before
said a port found incredible true for his account quote
most compelling and let me give you a sense of who they are by the way sir
Desmond the so but he was former chief prosecutor the special court
procera Leone Sir Geoffrey and nice QC
the formerly prosecutor former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
so the some heavy hitters in in the circles and then finally professor David
Crane
who indicted president Charles Taylor of Liberia at this hero
Leone Court so those are three giant cases
that when in terms of war crimes they interviewed this
defector and they say he is credible I and he explains why they took the
pictures in the first place called
there is a perfect I gripping executed persons was to Paul
her first to permit a death certificate to be produced without families
acquiring
to see the body thereby avoiding the authorities having to give a triple
account their deaths
second to confirm that borders to exclude individuals
had been carried out I the its
what's really stomach-turning is the bureaucracy involved
now look I want to get credit for the eye-catching that I did
and so just make sure you note it they explain a little further they say the
procedure for documentation
was that when a detainee was killed each body was given a reference to Amber
which related to that branch of the security service responsible
presentation
and death and they didn't noted that
in order blame them they noted that no to give them the proper credit for that
portray an execution
sir Desmond de Silva who I mentioned earlier said the evidence documented
industrial-scale killing and he went on to say this is a smoking gun
have a kind we didn't have before it makes a very strong case
indeed yeah yet will minutes in Ford's unfortunate that we live in a world
where
in the crimes that he committed before this weren't bad enough for us to be
really against them but now we have this
and is obviously very significant when we think about sort of political witch
hunts and you know killing your political rivals
you think you compile a list of names but eleven thousand individuals and
but this one guy the one photographer has been code named Cesar
he has these photographs the smuggled out but I doubt he was the only
photographer there was doing his photos
at other prisons there might well have been more and we've 11,000 now what will
we find out
if we ever get access to their actual records and of course you have to know
the timing
the fact that this coming out right before the peace conference is going to
happen I believe within a week
this is not what out aside wanted obviously
its it remains to be seen what actual fact the past in look at the Qatar
the has a hand in in making should this guy's seen before that conference
that's why we say hey we gotta be super careful and that's what we're glad that
they have some were top guys working on this
a case because they don't want some surpise covers reread
transition government which is not much hey over transition at all
in the same guys stay in place so there are those your political force to
consider as well
but overall I mean you look at what which are low side it has done
I guess is my he's made his father proud you know how puzzle side was considered
a butchery
once when in killed a over to 10,000 people
reported in one village a and now
Bashar Assad unfortunately has killed more proposal that
and some in the most gruesome ways possible so this guy
whatever you might think ok they're shooting is versus shias the rebel
forces
which ones are linked to al Qaeda or other groups were not happy with
we know the devil we got and that's with sharla side
and it's not in dispute as the weather he's a good guy or bad guy
yeah as we see here I'm not happy with the devil we got
right now what you do with that information is totally different
question
okay but at least you know it and that's important