NonilexDec 4

Assad’s Archive of Death

Photos of >10,000 regime victims capture a campaign of #torture & #MassMurder in haunting, meticulous detail

The…remains are the grotesque results of fmr #Syria president Bashar Assad’s killing machine. There’s a sinister, suffocating silence in these & >33k other excruciatingly high-quality photos of people [including infants], nearly all men, who were arrested & killed by the #Assad regime primarily between 2015 & 2024.

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
https://www.icij.org/investigations/damascus-dossier/syria-assad-mass-murder-photos-evidence/

Assad’s archive of death

Photographs of more than 10,000 regime victims capture a campaign of torture and mass murder in haunting, meticulous detail.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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Captured by Syrian military photographers, the images are part of the #DamascusDossier, an investigation based on a cache of >134,000 records obtained by German broadcaster #NDR & shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [#ICIJ] & 24 media partners. The Damascus Dossier sheds new light on the inner workings of the fmr Syrian government’s security & intelligence agencies.

#Syria #Assad #law #InternationalLaw #geopolitics #CrimesAgainstHumanity

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The leaked photographs are the largest single collection of images of murdered Syrian prisoners ever obtained by a news outlet. More than 10,200 individual prisoners were photographed, with up to 177 photos taken in a single day.

The photos were sent to military courts, where a judge would sign off on the deaths, essentially granting members of the #Assad regime judicial #immunity for their #crimes, according to a former military officer.

#Syria #law #InternationalLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity

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The officer served as the head of the Evidence Preservation Unit of the military police in #Damascus between 2020 & 2024. He provided the images to a source who shared them with #NDR. “There are things people need to know,” he said in an interview with NDR. “There are people whose families need to know where they are & what happened to them.”

Until now the Syrian public did not know about the existence of these photos.

#Syria #Assad #DamascusDossier #law #geopolitics #CrimesAgainstHumanity

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The #DamascusDossier investigation is an exposé into Assad’s vast system for the #detention, #torture & #murder of Syrian citizens — & the international forces that financed his regime.

The investigation findings are being published in multiple installments.

#Syria #Assad #law #InternationalLaw #geopolitics #CrimesAgainstHumanity
https://www.icij.org/investigations/damascus-dossier/

Damascus Dossier - ICIJ

Tens of thousands of secret photos and intelligence files expose the Assad regime’s killing machine.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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#UnitedNations paid $11M to Syrian security firm owned by #Assad intelligence services, documents show

For over a decade, #UN #aid agencies poured millions into the company despite warnings from #HumanRights advocates.

#Syria #DamascusDossier #law #InternationalLaw #geopolitics #complicit #CrimesAgainstHumanity
https://www.icij.org/investigations/damascus-dossier/assad-intelligence-security-united-nations-aid/

United Nations paid $11M to Syrian security firm owned by Assad intelligence services, documents show

For over a decade, U.N. aid agencies poured millions into the company despite warnings from human rights advocates.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists