US claims discovery of crematorium near Syrian torture prison

[TomSea]

US claims discovery of crematorium near Syrian torture prison

State department claims Bashar al-Assad has built a crematorium near Saydnaya, where rights groups say 13,000 people have been killed

Sednaya prison (screengrab)

The Syrian government has installed a crematorium in a military prison in order to destroy the remains of thousands of murdered prisoners, the United States alleged Monday.

Stuart Jones, the acting assistant secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, said the crematorium could be used to dispose of bodies from Saydnaya, where tens of thousands of people have been imprisoned during the country's six-year-old civil war.

"We believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Saydnaya prison," said Jones.

The US state department also released commercial satellite photographs showing what it said is a building in the prison complex that has been modified to support the crematorium.

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