Over Seas

Syria Executed 13,000 Civilian at Saydnaya Prison Since 2011, Says Amnesty International

By Sikh Siyasat Bureau

February 08, 2017

London: A UK based human rights organisation Amnesty International on Tuesday released as a part of human rights observation in the on going civil war in Syria has tabled a report in which it has stated that the Syrian regime lead by Bashar-Al-Asaad  has executed around 13,000 civilian in a systematic manner at Saydnaya Prison since the civil conflicted tore the country back in 2011. In this human slaughter house between 2011 and 2015  people were taken in the batch of 50 in a week often being twice a week and were hanged in the prison in cold blood.

The detailed report along with the statement issued by the Amnesty International reads as follows.

A chilling new report by Amnesty International exposes the Syrian government’s calculated campaign of extrajudicial executions by mass hangings at Saydnaya Prison. Between 2011 and 2015, every week and often twice a week, groups of up to 50 people were taken out of their prison cells and hanged to death. In five years, as many as 13,000 people, most of them civilians believed to be opposed to the government, were hanged in secret at Saydnaya.

Human slaughterhouse: Mass hangings and extermination at Saydnaya prison, Syria also shows that the government is deliberately inflicting inhuman conditions on detainees at Saydnaya Prison through repeated torture and the systematic deprivation of food, water, medicine and medical care. The report documents how these extermination policies have killed massive numbers of detainees.

“The horrors depicted in this report reveal a hidden, monstrous campaign, authorized at the highest levels of the Syrian government, aimed at crushing any form of dissent within the Syrian population,” said Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director for Research at Amnesty International’s regional office in Beirut.