Three former international prosecutors have accused Syria of large-scale killing and torture in a report — based on evidence of a defector — commissioned by Qatar, which backs Syrian rebels, the Guardian and CNN reported.
The report, which can be found online at both news outlets, relies on the unauthenticated testimony and photographs given by the source, who remains unidentified for security purposes. The release came yesterday a day before talks were due to be held in Geneva aimed at negotiating an end to Syria’s bloody civil war.
The informant, a photographer who claims to have defected from the Syrian military police, presented forensic experts commissioned by the london legal firm representing Qatar with around 55,000 digital images of 11,000 dead detainees. The informant also claims they died in captivity before being taken to a military hospital to be photographed.