Washington (May 16, 2017): The US has accused The United States has said that it has proofs that the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad has built a crematorium at a large military prison outside the capital Damascus, a State Department official said on Monday.
Acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs Stuart Jones has said U.S. officials believe the crematorium could be used to dispose of bodies at a prison where they believe Assad’s government authorized the mass hangings of thousands of inmates during Syria’s six-year-old civil war.
Amnesty International reported in February that an average of 20 to 50 people were hanged each week at the Sednaya military prison north of Damascus. Between 5,000 and 13,000 people were executed at Sednaya in the four years since a popular uprising descended into war, it said.
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