Gruesome Syria photos may prove torture by Assad regime
A team of internationally renowned war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts has found "direct evidence" of "systematic torture and killing" by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime， the lawyers on the team say in a new report.
"This is a smoking gun，" said David Crane， one of the report’s authors. "Any prosecutor would like this kind of evidence -- the photos and the process. This is direct evidence of the regime’s killing machine."
The bodies in the photos showed signs of starvation， brutal beatings， strangulation， and other forms of torture and killing， according to the report.
照片中的屍體呈現挨餓、痛毆、絞死和其他虐待與殺人手法的情形，根據報告指出。
In a group of photos of 150 individuals examined in detail by the experts， 62% of the bodies showed emaciation -- severely low body weight with a hollow appearance indicating starvation. The majority of all of the victims were men most likely aged 20-40.
The emaciated bodies were the product of starvation as a method of torture， "reminiscent of the pictures of those who were found still alive in the Nazi death camps after World War II，" he said in a CNN interview.