<blockquote>'..his story: 53,275 of them, to be exact .. Caesar (a pseudonym) worked for government security forces as a forensic photographer. The photos he took, and surreptitiously copied, were of thousands of corpses. Some were of fallen soldiers or war victims, but most were of young men who had spent their last days in the dungeons and torture chambers of the Syrian regime.
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.. Following a six-month investigation that included dozens of interviews with former prisoners, defectors who had worked in Syrian military hospitals or intelligence agencies, forensic experts and families of the disappeared, Human Rights Watch (HRW), an independent watchdog group, says it is satisfied that the photos are indeed genuine. In a report published on December 16th it says that Caesar’s work suggests that Syrian officials should be tried for crimes against humanity.
..Numerous families also testified to paying government officials extortionate bribes for news of imprisoned relatives, only to discover from the pictures that they had long been dead.'
- The Economist,
Bashar al-Assad’s crimes against humanity, caught on camera, December 16, 2015</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
(Syria) - '..a regime that actually fuels .. violent Islamic militancy..'(Syria) - 'The regime is not capable of changing..'(Syria) - '..Putin may yet come to rue the gamble.'</blockquote>