What a surprise (not)

The Wall Street Journal has an article about Syria:

A report released this week says it has extensive evidence, including a large cache of photographs, documenting the systematic torture and killing of some eleven thousand detainees by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The 667-page document, commissioned by the government of Qatar and first published by the Guardian newspaper and CNN, was written by three former war crimes prosecutors.
The report contrasts reactions to conflicts in the Central African Republic, the South Sudan, and the Congo, where the international community took seriously its “responsibility to protect” a decade-old UN doctrine to prevent genocide by sending in troops to protect civilians from attack.
David Crane, one of the experts who wrote the report told The Associated Press the photographs provide strong evidence for charging Assad and others for crimes against humanity, “but what happens next will be a political and diplomatic decision”.
The document was released ahead of a meeting in the Swiss city of Geneva, where opposing sides in the Syrian conflict will meet to seek a diplomatic solution to end the war. The US and its allies have been pressing different sides for months to join the meeting. Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive late Tuesday.
Opposition groups are expected to cite the report as a way to divert from the Assad regime’s efforts to focus the conference on fighting extremist groups.
In the fifty-five thousand digital images, smuggled out by a defector from Syria’s military police, the victims’ bodies showed signs of torture, including ligature marks around the neck and marks of beatings, while others show extreme emaciation suggestive of starvation. Syrian authorities photographed each body to show those who ordered their deaths that the executions had been carried out, according to the report, the AP reported.
“The last time you see this type of industrialized killing with this type of records keeping, you have to go back to Nuremberg,” Crane told the AP, referring to the post-World War Two trials of Nazi atrocities. “We stand with the rest of the world in horror at these images which have come to light. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the actions of the regime and call on it to adhere to international obligations with respect to the treatment of prisoners,” said Marie Harf, Deputy Spokesperson at the US State Department.

Rico says the stupid guys always have to take photos, and get hung by them...