>>AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HAS RELEASED THE RESULTS OF A
MULTIYEAR INVESTIGATION INTO BOTH TORTURE AND MASS KILLINGS
OF POLITICAL DISSIDENTS IN SYRIAN PRISONS OVER THE LAST
COUPLE OF YEARS, AND THE NUMBERS ARE STAGGERING, EVEN IN THE
CONTEXT OF SYRIA WHERE WE KNOW WELL OVER 400,000 PEOPLE HAVE
DIED SINCE THE WAR FLARED UP NOT TOO MANY YEARS AGO --
>>THEY DID HAVE REPORTS OF DISSIDENTS OR OTHERS NOT
COMPLYING WITH THE MILITARY BEING HELD AT THOSE COMPLEXES.
ONE OF THE RESEARCHERS WHO WORKED ON THIS REPORT SAID --
>>A U.N. COMMISSION WHICH HAD ACCESS TO DIFFERENT DATA BUT
RELEASED A REPORT ABOUT TORTURE AND MASS KILLINGS IN SYRIAN
PRISONS SAID THE REPORT THAT JUST CAME OUT TODAY LARGELY
LINES UP WITH THEIR OWN FINDINGS AS WELL.
>>STANDING BY AND DOING NOTHING, FOR PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT
THAT WOULD BE A WAY TO DO THIS, IT'S CLEARLY NOT RIGHT.
ASSAD'S
FATHER, THESE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS HE DID, WAS CONDEMNED FOR
THEM, AND THESE PEOPLE ARE MURDEROUS DICTATORS.
THERE IS NO
OTHER WAY TO FRAME THE HORROR THAT'S GOING ON THERE.
I DON'T HAVE A CURE FOR IT, OBVIOUSLY.
>>I THINK THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT LEAD PEOPLE TO
SAY WE SHOULD JUST STAY OUT, IF THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO
IS APPARENTLY MAKE IT WORSE.
>>YOU CAN'T SIT IDLY BY.
>>I'M JUST DEVIL'S ADVOCATE.
>>I KNOW, BUT YOU JUST CAN'T DO THAT.
EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE
SOLUTION FOR IT, THERE HAS TO BE A WAY TO STEP IN AND TRY AND
STOP WHAT IS GOING ON.
THIS IS THE MOST UNCONSCIONABLE THING --
THIS MAKES BETSY DEVOS SEEM LIKE A WALK IN THE PARK, OBVIOUSLY.
AND THANK GOD FOR AMNESTY, DOING THIS WORK.
NOBODY ELSE IS PAYING ATTENTION TO IT.
>>AND GOING INTO THOSE PLACES, TALKING WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE
PARTICIPATED IN THESE ACTS.
>>AND THE TURKS ARE TALKING ABOUT IT, AND PEOPLE AREN'T ON
THE NEWS WHEN WE TURN IT ON.
I LOVE THE NEWS, I DISAGREE WITH A
LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE WATCHING THIS, I LOVE THE NEWS AND WATCH
IT ALL THE TIME, BUT THEY ARE TOTALLY WRONG ON COVERING THIS
STORY.
AND IT HAS TO BE TOLD, IF IT IS NOT BEING TOLD BECAUSE
IT'S NOT SEXY OR IT'S NOT KELLYANNE CONWAY AND SEAN SPICER,
WE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE LOSING AND THESE PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE
TO DO WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
>>IT'S INTERESTING YOU BROUGHT THAT UP, THERE IS A QUOTE, WE
DON'T HAVE A GRAPHIC, BUT THEY SAY THE REPORT HAS GOTTEN THE
ATTENTION IT DESERVES, BUT FOR PEOPLE WHO WORK ON SYRIA IT WAS
ALMOST A TEST CASE FOR DOES THE WORLD STILL CARE, NOT JUST ABOUT
DEATH BUT THE FACT THAT IT WAS ORGANIZED, SYSTEMATIC.
AND LIKE
YOU SAID IT WAS SIMILAR IN EXECUTION, IF NOT IN SCALE YET,
AS THE HOLOCAUST.
>>SIMILAR IN EXECUTION.
>>I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT WORD I SAID.
I GUESS I'M TRYING NOT TO
JOKE ABOUT MASS KILLINGS, I SAID THAT UNFORTUNATELY.
AND TO MANY
IN AMERICA, YOU THINK ABOUT SYRIA OCCASIONALLY IF YOU DO AT ALL,
BUT THE IDEA THAT OVER THE COURSE OF FEW YEARS HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS CAN BE KILLED AND MILLIONS OF OTHERS DRIVEN OUT OF
THE COUNTRY PRODUCING A WORLDWIDE REFUGEE PROBLEM
WE ARE DEALING WITH, ALTHOUGH BACKING OFF OF AS A
COUNTRY, TO THIS DAY, IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE.
>>ALSO HARD TO IMAGINE THAT ALL THOSE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS,
TERRIBLE PEOPLE.
>>THIS IS A REMINDER -- I'M SO GLAD YOU SAID THAT -- THIS IS A
REMINDER OF WHEN WE SAY THEY ARE RUNNING FROM HELL ON EARTH, A
HELLSCAPE, THE WORST POSSIBLE THING YOU CAN IMAGINE, THIS IS
WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
SIMPLY FOR DISAGREEING WITH THE
ASSAD REGIME YOU CAN BE PUT INTO JAIL -- LET ME JUST READ THESE
QUOTES --
>>THAT'S FROM THE BEIRUT OFFICE DEPUTY RESEARCH DIRECTOR.
BUT
LOOK HOW THEY DESCRIBE HOW THESE HANGINGS ARE CARRIED OUT --
>>THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE HELD IN HORRIBLE SITUATIONS, LIED TO
ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN, AND THEN BROUGHT AND KILLED.
AND
THOSE NUMBERS ARE DEVASTATING, PER MONTH AND CERTAINLY WHEN YOU
ADD THEM UP OVER THE COURSE OF A FEW YEARS.
AS A RESULT OF THIS
DATA COMING UP, REPRESENTATIVES OF SOME OF OUR ALLIED COUNTRIES
HAVE SPOKEN OUT AGAINST THE ASSAD REGINE.
BORIS JOHNSON, WHO
WE ARE NOT NECESSARILY A FAN OF HERE IN THE U.S. OR AT LEAST ON
THE YOUNG TURKS, SAID --
>>THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE AND I BELIEVE THE FOREIGN
AFFAIRS ADVISOR, I BELIEVE HE IS, SAYS --
>>FRANCE AND THE U.K.
SPEAKING OUT ON THIS, NOTABLY ABSENT ANY
COMMENTARY FROM OUR VALIANT LEADER IN THE U.S. BECAUSE WHILE
DONALD TRUMP HAS TIME TO TALK ABOUT RATINGS OF REALITY SHOWS,
HE DOESN'T HAVE TIME TO TALK ABOUT 13,000 PEOPLE BEING KILLED
AND MASS EXECUTIONS.
ALSO NOTABLE, NO COMMENTARY FROM
VLADIMIR PUTIN, MAYBE BECAUSE HE PROPS UP THIS REGIME.
MIGHT BE
THERE IS A LINK BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES NOT MAKING COMMENTS.
>>YOU CAN MAKE JOKES ABOUT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AND THAT
STUFF, BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF TALKING ABOUT THIS.
OR TALKING
ABOUT THE QU…BEC BOMBING, WHICH HE HASN'T DONE.
I DON'T CARE
WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT SILLY STUFF, PEOPLE TALK ABOUT SILLY
STUFF SOMETIMES, BUT THEY HAVE TO FOCUS ON WHAT IS IMPORTANT
AND THEY ARE NOT DOING THAT AT THE SAME TIME, AND THIS IS A
SERIOUS PROBLEM.
WE ARE ALL INDEBTED TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, THEY ARE
JUST SO IMPORTANT.
>>DOING GREAT WORK, INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS WORK.
AND WHEN YOU
THINK ABOUT THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEMS -- WE VERY OFTEN HEAR
IN THE U.S., WE TALK ABOUT THE LEVEL OF FOCUS GIVEN TO, SAY,
TERRORISM, AND PEOPLE'S CONCERN OVER IT, AND HOW WHEN YOU LOOK
AT THE THINGS THAT KILL PEOPLE IN AMERICA, DISPROPORTIONATELY
WE FOCUS ON SOME AND NOT OTHERS REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY PEOPLE
ARE PUT AT RISK.
BUT HOW MANY TERROR ATTACKS DO YOU NEED TO
ADD UP TO GET TO 13,000 PEOPLE, PROBABLY LARGELY INNOCENT OF ANY
CRIME, BEING KILLED?
AND ASIDE FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, THE
U.N., AND A LITTLE NEWS COVERAGE, LARGELY THE WORLD
LOOKS THE OTHER WAY AND ISN'T EVEN WILLING TO TAKE THE PEOPLE
WHO MANAGED TO GET OUTSIDE OF SYRIA, LET ALONE ACTUALLY
RESOLVING THE PROBLEM IN SYRIA, WHICH IS THE ASSAD REGIME, IN
ADDITION TO A NUMBER OF OTHER GROUPS OPERATING WITHIN SYRIA.