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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/syria-assad-deaths-torture-photos/
Massive Trove of Photos Depicts Syria's Killing Machine
(Washington Post) Kareem Fahim - A massive trove containing 70,000 images taken by Syrian military police photographers who recorded deaths between 2015 and 2024 includes 10,212 people who died in detention or after they were transferred from detention to military hospitals. The trove is larger than an earlier cache of images known as the Caesar Files that was made public in 2014 and showed in grisly detail the torture and killing that occurred in Assad's detention network. The new trove was obtained by German public broadcaster NDR and shared in October with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and partner organizations, including the Washington Post. The new photographs were leaked by a colonel who headed the evidence preservation unit of the military police in Damascus. The photographs demonstrate the Syrian state's industrial-scale arrest, torture and killing of opponents, and the obsessive documentation of horrors by a regime that apparently felt it had little to fear.