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Syrian government has starved, tortured and executed thousands: HRW

Rights group says defector's photographs of dead prisoners prove, with "damning evidence", crimes against humanity by Assad government
A montage of the faces of some of the dead prisoners photographed by Syrian military police photographer "Caeser" who smuggled 50,000 photos out of Syria in 2013 (Human RIghts Watch)
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