“We now believe that the Syrian regime has installed a crematorium in the Sednaya prison complex which could dispose of prison detainees’ remains with little evidence,” Stuart Jones, acting assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, said at a news conference on Monday. Beginning in 2013, the regime is believed to have “modified a building” in the prison complex to support what appears to be a crematorium, Jones said. It represents an “effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Sednaya prison.”The complex, located about 45 minutes outside of Damascus, is Syria’s largest and most secure prison. It’s been the site of extrajudicial killings and mass hangings since the war began, Jones said. An estimated 400,000 people have died in the Syrian war, according to the United Nations.

Source: Huffington Post May 15, 2017 17:31 UTC