Gruesome archive may help Syrians identify lost loved-ones

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An archive of photos shows the brutality of the ousted regime of Bashar Assad, while giving families clues to the fate of their lost loved ones. In Germany, such images are used to investigate the perpetrators.

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00:00The images are horrific.

00:03Corpses, many of them naked, bearing signs of torture.

00:08These photos were stored on a hard drive.

00:12A Syrian military police colonel who wishes to remain anonymous

00:16secured the images after the fall of Assad.

00:21If I had left the hard drive in the safe, someone might have destroyed it.

00:26I saw so many documents being burned around me,

00:29so I took the hard drive with me.

00:32The images reached German public broadcaster in Der Erwia Intermediaries.

00:36They were then analysed jointly with other German media outlets,

00:39Vedder Erset and international partners.

00:42Many of the photos come from a military hospital in Damascus,

00:45a place where people were also tortured.

00:48There are around 700,000 photos in total.

00:51They document mass murder.

00:53Questions about this to Assad and those responsible remain unanswered.

00:57In Germany, the federal prosecutor's office is using such images to investigate the perpetrators.

01:04These photos vividly illustrate, and therefore objectively demonstrate,

01:12what individuals have suffered.

01:15When you see these photos, there's really no doubt about what happened there.

01:21The data set represents a gruesome archive, but for many Syrian families,

01:26it is also a possible lead to their missing loved ones.

01:30The data set represents a huge impact on the難民occhio's office.

01:35The data set represents a huge impact on the human beings.

01:39The data set represents a huge impact on the human beings.

01:42So that's the answer is a huge impact on the human beings.

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