EXECUTIONER'S TALLY
Syrian rebels find ‘Book of Death’ with names of 29,000 people executed by vicious Assad regime at ‘slaughterhouse jail’
Watch the rebels discover the Book of Death in the clip below
SYRIAN rebels have discovered a chilling "Book of Death" with names of nearly 30,000 people executed in Assad's slaughterhouse jail.
As the atrocities of the infamous Sednaya prison continue to be unveiled, tortured bodies and piles of clothes were also discovered at the hellhole site.
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Thousands of freed prisoners returned to their families over the weekend after Assad's regime crumbled.
But some families will find out their loved ones were tortured and killed after a thick book found in the hellhole Sednaya was found containing names of the dead.
A heart-wrenching 29,000 names were counted in the pages and were reportedly tracked over the course of a few years.
Footage shows rebels, in utter disbelief, flicking through the death book with hundreds of names on each page.
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In the clip, one man is explaining the shock discovery along with other various papers discovered that Assad's military didn't manage to destroy.
The Syrian man stresses the unbelievable number of names written down - sitting at a heartbreaking 29,000.
He goes on to say how the group plan on using "every single" name from the book and reaching out to their families who are missing their loved ones.
The man stressed: "Gather them, preserve them.
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"Keep them safe and deliver them."
The Syrian then begins to read names, birth dates and what technique was used to execute the individuals in the vile discovery.
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He even points out how "even field executions" are present in the book before continuing to stress to his fellow rebels not to destroy or tear the papers.
Shaming Assad's regime and how much other evidence was destroyed under him, the man says: "People, we must contribute to preserving these properties.
"The regime broke the cameras and destroyed the hard drives - so that these crimes wouldn’t be exposed."
Rebels and Syrian civilians are continuing to investigate Sednaya prison and all of its secret compartments and underground dungeons.
Haunting images show massive piles of clothes and shoes hidden away in a secret compartment of the notorious Sednaya prison.
And horrific footage captures the moment rebels find piles of dead bodies in the dungeons of the hellhole site who had been tortured to death.
The bodies were taken to Al-Mujtahid Hospital as teams carried out an investigation into the secret areas of the prison.
Thousands of prisoners released when Islamist rebels led by Hayat al Tahir al-Sham (HTS) captured key cities in the country.
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One man was even discovered by a reporter as he hid in terror under a blanket in a cell.
Years of abuse, torture and death that inmates had to endure in the Syrian prisons are finally being exposed.
SEDNAYA PRISON LIBERATED
Sednaya had become synonymous with Assad's reign of tyranny over the past couple of decades.
Chilling videos from inside the liberated jail show rebels looking around a room which appears to be where executions may have taken place.
Footage from the Syrian capital shows dozens of women and young men reportedly walking free for the first time in years after rebels stormed the national prisons on the weekend.
A clip even shows a toddler leaving a cell as rebels cheered on.
Survivors of the torturous prison provided chilling testimonies on their near-death experiences, claiming it was "carefully designed to humiliate, degrade, sicken, starve and ultimately kill those trapped inside".
ASSAD'S DENIAL
The overthrown dictator Assad previously denied killing thousands of detainees at Sednaya.
He also denied using a secret crematorium to dispose of their remains in 2017.
Despite the denial, so-called "Caesar" files, which was a collection of over 55,000 photographs, was smuggled out of Syria in 2013 by a former military police photographer.
These images documented unspeakable torture and deaths of over 11,000 prisoners in Syrian government custody between March 2011 and August 2013.
RAPE, TORTURE AND DEATH
Some held at the horrific prison of Sednaya say they were raped, and in some cases, forced to rape other inmates.
A regular form of punishment was some kind of torture and severe beatings from guards, it's claimed, which led to individuals suffering life-changing damage like disabilities or death.
Floors of cells were coated in blood and pus from tortured prisoners, according to a 2017 Amnesty report, with the bodies of dead prisoners collected like rubbish at 9am each morning by guards.
Detainees were also forced to follow horrific rules as they were forced as they were deprived the basic necessities of food, water and medicine.
When food would be delivered it would often be cruelly scattered across cell floors by guards with a mixture of blood and dirt.
A human iron press was even discovered that was allegedly used to crush prisoners to death in Sednaya - unveiled in videos shared by rebels as they liberated prisoners.
They also found dozens of red rope nooses used for mass hangings in an execution room.
Other disturbing accounts say the mass hangings occurred once or twice a week on a Monday and Wednesday - chillingly in the middle of the night.
Human Rights Watch conducted over 200 interviews of detainees who said they were all tortured.
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One 31-year-old man, who was detained in the Idlib area in June 2012, says he was made to undress and tortured using various heinous techniques.
He said: "'They started squeezing my fingers with pliers. They put staples in my fingers, chest and ears.
"I was only allowed to take them out if I spoke. The staples in the ears were the most painful.
"They used two wires hooked up to a car battery to give me electric shocks. They used electric stun-guns on my genitals twice.
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"I thought I would never see my family again. They tortured me like this three times over three days."
The unbelievable practices, which human rights groups say amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, were authorised at the highest level of the Syrian government under Assad.
What is Sednaya Prison?
By Annabel Bate, Foreign News Reporter
SEDNAYA Prison - otherwise known as the Human Slaughterhouse - was a military prison near Damascus, Syria.
Operated by the government of Syrian Arab Republic, the hellhole prison was used to hold thousands of inmates that were civilian detainees, anti-government rebels and political prisoners.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) estimated in January 2021 that an overwhelming 30,000 detainees were horrifically executed under the Assad regime in Sednaya.
Guards would use torture as a killing technique, as well as have mass executions.
Some held at the horrific prison of Sednaya say they were raped, and in some cases, forced to rape other inmates.
A regular form of punishment was some kind of torture and sever beatings from guards, it's claimed, which led to individuals suffering life-changing damage like disabilities or death.
Floors of cells were coated in blood and pus from tortured prisoners, according to a 2017 Amnesty report, with the bodies of dead prisoners collected like rubbish at 9am each morning by guards.
Detainees were also forced to follow horrific rules as they were forced as they were deprived the basic necessities of food, water and medicine.
When food would be delivered it would often be cruelly scattered across cell floors by guards with a mixture of blood and dirt.
Other disturbing accounts say the mass hangings occurred once or twice a week on a Monday and Wednesday - chillingly in the middle of the night.
The unbelievable practices, which human rights groups say amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, were authorised at the highest level of the Syrian government under Assad.
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