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State Dept.: Syrian Government Burning Bodies of Those Killed at Saydnaya Prison

HeadlineMay 16, 2017

In more news on Syria, the U.S. State Department says it believes the Syrian government has been burning the bodies of those killed at the Saydnaya prison outside Damascus in a crematorium. Amnesty International says the Syrian government has executed up to 13,000 people at the prison since 2011. Physicians for Human Rights said, “If shown to be true, the Syrian government’s use of a crematorium demonstrates the extent to which the Syrian government has become a machine that commits mass murder with impunity.”

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