Harrowing vid shows morgue filled with brutalised bodies of Assad’s FINAL torture victims as Syrians hunt for loved ones
HORRIFYING footage shows a morgue filled with the brutalised bodies of Bashar al-Assad’s final torture victims.
A shocking 35 bodies were brought into a morgue from a military hospital just days after Assad’s dictatorship rapidly crumbled.
Family members have had to queue to see the bodies of tortured inmates to determine if any of them could be their missing loved ones.
Syrian citizens are captured in line to see the bodies with their hands covering their noses – protecting themselves from the stench of death.
The 35 bodies found are believed to be some of the last torture victims under the tyrant’s brutal regime, CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports.
One woman, who couldn’t find her missing mum, brother, or husband, is seen in the footage wailing as she throws her hands up in despair.
She’s captured sat on the floor of the morgue while another woman consoles her.
A doctor is seen desperately helping heartbroken people to find their loved ones, a lot of whom are showing pictures of who they’re looking for.
Footage shows him unzipping body bags while mothers, fathers and siblings howl with grief.
The doctor points towards the bodies and says: “Take a look, this is the crime of the regime.
“Even in the Middle Ages they didn’t torture people like this.”
The corpses are currently only identifiable by number – proving the overwhelming amount that were recovered when the rebels stormed Assad’s inhumane prisons.
Meanwhile another man points out by the state of the corpses clothes, suggesting they may well have been detainees at the infamous Sednaya prison.
Clarissa Ward said that at the morgue, those searching for relatives were handing her names to help to try and find them.
Not everyone will be given the closure of their loved ones deaths, as Assad’s military intelligence burnt documents and destroyed hard drives before fleeing from the rebels.
But the tyrant’s soldiers didn’t reach a thick book found in the hellhole Sednaya prison however, containing thousands of names of the dead.
A heart-wrenching 29,000 names were counted in the pages and were reportedly tracked over the course of a few years.
Rebels are captured in utter disbelief flicking through the death book with hundreds of names on each page.
One man explains the shock discovery along with other various papers discovered that Assad’s military didn’t manage to destroy.
The Syrian man stresses the unbelievable number of names written down.
He goes on to say how the group plan on using “every single” name from the book and reaching out to their families who are missing their loved ones.
The man stressed: “Gather them, preserve them.
“Keep them safe and deliver them.”
Shaming Assad’s regime and how much other evidence was destroyed under him, the man says: “People, we must contribute to preserving these properties.
“The regime broke the cameras and destroyed the hard drives – so that these crimes wouldn’t be exposed.”
Rebels and Syrian civilians are continuing to investigate Sednaya prison and all of its secret compartments and underground dungeons.
Haunting images show massive piles of clothes and shoes hidden away in a secret compartment of the notorious Sednaya prison.
And horrific footage captures the moment rebels find piles of dead bodies in the dungeons of the hellhole site who had been tortured to death.
The bodies were taken to Al-Mujtahid Hospital as teams carried out an investigation into the secret areas of the prison.
Thousands of prisoners released when Islamist rebels led by Hayat al Tahir al-Sham (HTS) captured key cities in the country.
One man was even discovered by a reporter as he hid in terror under a blanket in a cell.
Years of abuse, torture and death that inmates had to endure in the Syrian prisons are finally being exposed.
SEDNAYA PRISON LIBERATED
Sednaya had become synonymous with Assad’s reign of tyranny over the past couple of decades.
Chilling videos from inside the liberated jail show rebels looking around a room which appears to be where executions may have taken place.
Footage from the Syrian capital shows dozens of women and young men reportedly walking free for the first time in years after rebels stormed the national prisons on the weekend.
A clip even shows a toddler leaving a cell as rebels cheered on.
Survivors of the torturous prison provided chilling testimonies on their near-death experiences, claiming it was “carefully designed to humiliate, degrade, sicken, starve and ultimately kill those trapped inside”.
ASSAD’S DENIAL
The overthrown dictator Assad previously denied killing thousands of detainees at Sednaya.
He also denied using a secret crematorium to dispose of their remains in 2017.
Despite the denial, so-called “Caesar” files, which was a collection of over 55,000 photographs, was smuggled out of Syria in 2013 by a former military police photographer.
These images documented unspeakable torture and deaths of over 11,000 prisoners in Syrian government custody between March 2011 and August 2013.
RAPE, TORTURE AND DEATH
Some held at the horrific prison of Sednaya say they were raped, and in some cases, forced to rape other inmates.
A regular form of punishment was some kind of torture and severe beatings from guards, it’s claimed, which led to individuals suffering life-changing damage like disabilities or death.
Floors of cells were coated in blood and pus from tortured prisoners, according to a 2017 Amnesty report, with the bodies of dead prisoners collected like rubbish at 9am each morning by guards.
Detainees were also forced to follow horrific rules as they were forced as they were deprived the basic necessities of food, water and medicine.
When food would be delivered it would often be cruelly scattered across cell floors by guards with a mixture of blood and dirt.
A human iron press was even discovered that was allegedly used to crush prisoners to death in Sednaya – unveiled in videos shared by rebels as they liberated prisoners.
They also found dozens of red rope nooses used for mass hangings in an execution room.
Other disturbing accounts say the mass hangings occurred once or twice a week on a Monday and Wednesday – chillingly in the middle of the night.
Human Rights Watch conducted over 200 interviews of detainees who said they were all tortured.
One 31-year-old man, who was detained in the Idlib area in June 2012, says he was made to undress and tortured using various heinous techniques.
He said: “‘They started squeezing my fingers with pliers. They put staples in my fingers, chest and ears.
“I was only allowed to take them out if I spoke. The staples in the ears were the most painful.
“They used two wires hooked up to a car battery to give me electric shocks. They used electric stun-guns on my genitals twice.
“I thought I would never see my family again. They tortured me like this three times over three days.”
The unbelievable practices, which human rights groups say amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, were authorised at the highest level of the Syrian government under Assad.
What is Sednaya Prison?
By Annabel Bate, Foreign News Reporter
SEDNAYA Prison – otherwise known as the Human Slaughterhouse – was a military prison near Damascus, Syria.
Operated by the government of Syrian Arab Republic, the hellhole prison was used to hold thousands of inmates that were civilian detainees, anti-government rebels and political prisoners.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) estimated in January 2021 that an overwhelming 30,000 detainees were horrifically executed under the Assad regime in Sednaya.
Guards would use torture as a killing technique, as well as have mass executions.
Some held at the horrific prison of Sednaya say they were raped, and in some cases, forced to rape other inmates.
A regular form of punishment was some kind of torture and sever beatings from guards, it’s claimed, which led to individuals suffering life-changing damage like disabilities or death.
Floors of cells were coated in blood and pus from tortured prisoners, according to a 2017 Amnesty report, with the bodies of dead prisoners collected like rubbish at 9am each morning by guards.
Detainees were also forced to follow horrific rules as they were forced as they were deprived the basic necessities of food, water and medicine.
When food would be delivered it would often be cruelly scattered across cell floors by guards with a mixture of blood and dirt.
Other disturbing accounts say the mass hangings occurred once or twice a week on a Monday and Wednesday – chillingly in the middle of the night.
The unbelievable practices, which human rights groups say amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, were authorised at the highest level of the Syrian government under Assad.