PHOTOS: U.S. accuses Syria of killing thousands, burning bodies in large crematorium
Prisoners say they slept 'on top of the sound of people choking to death'
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The U.S. State Department is accusing the Syrian government of secretly murdering thousands of prisoners and disposing of the bodies by burning them in a large crematorium.
As many of 50 prisoners are being hanged at Saydnaya military prison near Damascus every day, U.S. officials said Monday. They say the crematorium was constructed to “dispose of detainees’ remains with little evidence.”
“Although the regime’s many atrocities are well documented, 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 Stuart Jones, acting assistant secretary for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department.
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