The Syria talks also continue as a new report accused the Assad regime of war crimes reminiscent of Nazi concentration camps during World War II. A team of three international prosecutors released images obtained from a Syrian defector showing emaciated and mutilated bodies likely resulting from torture. The defector is said to be a military investigator who handed over thousands of photographs he had taken of the Assad regime’s victims. Former war crimes prosecutor Desmond de Silva said the images prove killings on an “industrial” scale.

Desmond de Silva: “We came to the conclusion that the killings were of an industrial kind, that they were regular, they were persistent, and they were systematic, and they’ve been going on for years, such that the evidence we found would certainly underpin any count of a crime at international law. And the pictures are reminiscent of the worst pictures that came out of Belsen and Auschwitz after the Second World War. And these poor creatures were not just starved, but they were also tortured whilst starving.”