MESOPOTAMIA NEWS – WITH COMPLIMENTS TO ALL THE MANY WESTERN LEFT WING ASSAD/PUTIN FANS : THE ASSAD FAMILY GAVE SHELTER TO PROMINENT NAZI’S
By Kyle Orton
One remarkable thing about the Syrian regime’s prison camps over the last few years is the consistency: the methods of cruelty and their systematic nature were all described in the 1980s by victims during the first uprising. As many as 200,000 people languish in Bashar al Assad’s prisons today. Prisoners are systematically tortured, raped, starved and murdered. The case against Assad is ironclad.
The launching of a limited punitive raid against the Syrian regime of Bashar al Assad for the use of poison gas has brought some attention to the regime’s crimes. The regime’s visible crimes are numerous and devastating.
In addition to using weapons of mass destruction, fighter jets have levelled ancient cities, sieges have starved populations into submission, and improvised explosives like barrel bombs have maimed thousands. These tactics are part of what UN investigators have called a “systematic and widespread attack against [the Syrian] civilian population”.
The UN commission recently noted that what the Assad regime has done amounts to crimes against humanity, including extermination, murder, rape, and torture.
What does not get enough attention is the part of Assad’s criminality that is most difficult to see: that which takes place in the prisons, a vast network of concentration camps where torture and murder is routine.
Assad’s prisons before the war
The horrific conditions and systemic torture are a longstanding fact about the Assad regime’s prisons, and this is hardly a surprise. Nazi fugitives like Walter Rauff and Alois Brunner, an assistant to Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects and the operational leader of the Holocaust, were not only sheltered in Syria but provided advice to its intelligence and security apparatus on interrogation and other matters. (Israel nearly killed Brunner, twice, while he was based in Syria.)