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other direction. On page 32, it says that the picture is of the cemetery of martyrs south of Damascus.
The report says that it was expanded substantially between 2014 and 2016 and that long tunnels were
dug in them, implying that they were used to burry those who were executed. This is silly beyond silly.
In the martyrs cemetery no one can be buried there except the martyrs of the army, even if there is an
intercession by Muhammad or Jesus or Hafidh Al-Asad himself. And contrary to what they say, and
the picture damns them, because it shows the increase in the number of victims of the army. On p. 35,
and elsewhere, they talk about forcing "prisoners to rape one another". This is despicable fabrication
which is baseless, and is psychologically impossible under those conditions. (Is it possible for any
person in the world to get an erection to rape another person who is tied and is under torture?) If the
lying witness were too say that he was raped with sticks, i would have believed it because this
happened sometimes with public defense prisoners as I indicated above. On page 43, they is a copy of
certificate of death which reveals that it belongs to the Minister of Interior, but the certificate says that
death was in "Military Tirshrin Hospital", which belongs to the Ministry of Defense. This didn't
happen, and can't happen. In cases of death in a military hospital or in detention centers belonging to
Military Intelligence, the certificates show "Army or Armed Forces, Directorate of Military Medical
Services", or hospital x. One of the most amusing--if there is amusement in tragedies--contents of the
report is what appears on page 44, where it talks about "tens of thousands" (i.e. over 30,000 or at least
18,000) who died under torture or for other reasons in Sidnaya prison in five years but it says: "but we
only were able to obtain the names of 375 people only". What the report says about the kinds of
mistreatment and torture and criminality is generally true. The world has not seen more savage
prisons than the 18 prisons of the Iraqi (Saddamist) and Syrian prisons since the times of Nazism and
Fascism in WWII. And anything which is reported in this context can be simply believed. We have
seen it with our own eyes and lived it personally, although there were orders to--to be fair--that the
torture of leftists and nationalists be less severe than the savage torture of Islamists."
* I pointed to Nizar this morning that the official Syrian regime statement issued today used the name
of Sidnaya prison, and he said that it was the first time as they did not want to use the official name of
First Military Prison.
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