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Report details 'industrial' killing of 11,000 in Assad jails

By REUTERS

JANUARY 21, 2014 14:50

LONDON - A Syrian military police photographer has supplied "clear evidence" showing the systematic torture and killing of about 11,000 detainees in circumstances that evoked Nazi death camps, former war crimes prosecutors said.

Syrian officials could face war crimes charges as a result of the evidence provided by the photographer, who has defected, the three prosecutors said.

One of the prosecutors said the evidence documented "industrial scale killing" that was reminiscent of the World War II concentration camps of Belsen and Auschwitz.

The trove of harrowing photographs ratchets up the pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad, who the United States and its Western allies say has committed war crimes against his own people during the civil war.

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