Crematorium Built by Syrian Government to Handle Prisoner Massacres, According to United States

According to the United States, the Syrian government has constructed a crematorium to dispose of detainee bodies that have been executed within the Sednaya prison facility.  Near the city of Damascus, Syria’s capital, Sednaya has been notorious for abusing its prisoners—now, with this new crematorium built, the Syrian government can exterminate its prisoners in a sanitary way.

Assistant Secretary of State Stuart Jones says that in recent years the bodies of executed prisoners have been dumped in mass graves.  He adds, “What we’re assessing is that if you have that level of production of mass murder, then using the crematorium would… allow the regime to manage that number of corpses… without evidence.  We believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Sednaya prison.”

Regardless of whether prisoners are of enemy forces or simply unarmed citizens, the Syrian regime regards each detainee the same, “systematically abduct[ing] and torture[ing] civilian detainees, often beating, electrocuting and raping these victims”.  The Syrian government consequently approves the killing of thousands in order to thus maintain its iron fist.

According to satellite photographs released by the State Department, the construction of the facility can be seen outside the “main prison complex and its apparent use”.  The facility that is suspected as the crematorium is only a few hundred yards away from the main prison complex and is thus conveniently placed.

Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post writes, “Accusations of mass murder and incinerated bodies, evoking the Holocaust, contrasted with last week’s Washington visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.  They were pictured shaking hands and broadly smiling with President Trump before an Oval Office meeting in which discussion centered on Syria.”

DeYoung brings up a valid point about this incident evoking hints of that of the Holocaust and that of eugenics.  But, it is strange that such a facility would be placed so close to the capital of Syria and not somewhere further away.  After all, Auschwitz, “the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime,” was placed in Poland, 344 miles away from Berlin.  When asked if military action to end this injustice was in the near future, Jones replied by saying, “We’re not going to signal what we are going to do and what we’re not going to do,” remaining surreptitious regarding this issue.

Regardless, the United States continues to investigate this matter.  Avoiding the possibility of triggering negative responses from allied countries, Jones concludes by noting, “The regime must stop all attacks on civilians and opposition forces, and Russia must bear responsibility to ensure regime compliance”.